Editorial note — BOOK IX
Francis Augustus MacNutt translation
[Note 10: Possibly the estuary of the Amazon.]
[Note 11: Propterea Gangetidis Indiæ continentem putans. The Ruysch map (1516) shows the junction of the American continent with Asia.]
[Note 12: Licet universum terræ, orbem, large sumptum, insulam dicere fas sit.]