Note 232 — LIBRO TERZO. Capitano Paolo Vettori, (continued 2)

William Henry Smith, rear-admiral, R. N., The Mediterranean, a memoir physical, historical, and nautical, in-8. Londra, 1854, p. 406: «On the orthography and nomenclature adopted.... These names are a strange mixture, and corruption of Hellenic, Romaic, Latin, Frank, and Turckish.... many of the misnomer retains their places in our charts and maps....» 415: «There are many of these blounders, but one may be cited. At Smirna on a post the thurkish Sanjak or banner was hoisted on a projecting head-land. This cape therefore, named Sanjak-Burnù, became in french Pointe of. St. Iacques, to which our savants duly translated Point of St. James: the name under which it appeared till very lately, in our admiralty charts.»