Note 751 — Chapter XVI
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Mr. Major, in an able article in the Journ. of the Roy. Geograph. Soc. for 1871, entitled “The Landfall of Columbus,” has examined the whole question as to the island on which he first landed on October 12, 1492, and has shown that Humboldt, Washington Irving, and himself (in his edition for the Hakluyt Society of the “Select Letters of Columbus”) have been in error, and that the island called by the Indians Guanahani is unquestionably that now called “Watling Island.”