Note 107 — NATIONAL AFFAIRS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Reading edition
Not a transcript of the famous epitaph on the tomb at Seville,—
“A Castilla y á Leon Nuevo mundo dió Colon,”—
(“To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a new world,”)—
but part of a Latin inscription, to the same effect, on a mural tablet in the Cathedral at Havana, the last resting-place of the remains of the great navigator:—
“Claris. heros Ligustin. Christophorus Colombus a se rei nautic. scient. insign. nov. orb. detect. atque Castell. et Legion. regib. subject.,” etc.—
Literally rendered, “The most illustrious Genoese hero, Christopher Columbus, by himself, through remarkable nautical science, a new world having been discovered and subjected to the kings of Castile and Leon,” etc.
See Masse, L’Isle de Cuba et La Havane, (Paris, 1825,) p. 201.