Note 729 — Chapter II
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Dudley, Arcano del Mare, pl. lii, places Estotiland between Davis and Hudson’s Straits; but Torfæus doubts if it is Labrador, as is “commonly believed.” Lafitau (Mœurs des Sauvages) puts it north of Hudson Bay. Forster calls it Newfoundland. Beauvois (Les colonies Européenes du Markland at de l’Escociland) makes it include Maine, New Brunswick, and part of Lower Canada. These are the chief varieties of belief. Steenstrup is of those who do not recognize America at all. Hornius, among the older writers, thought that Scotland or Shetland was more likely to have been the fisherman’s strange country. Santarem (Hist. de la Cartographie, iii. 141) points out an island, “Y Stotlandia,” in the Baltic, as shown on the map of Giovanni Leardo (1448) at Venice.