Note 1386 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

It was re-engraved in Paris in 1754 by the geographer Buache, and later in the margin of a map of North America published by Sayer of London. It is given in fac-simile in Jules Marcou’s paper on the first discoverers of California, appended to the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., 1878, and is also sketched in Bancroft’s North Mexican States, vol. i. p. 499. Cf. his Northwest Coast, vol. i. pp. 113, 115, 120, where it is shown that Kino never convinced all his companions that the accepted island was in fact a peninsula. One of his associates, Luis Velarde (Documentos para la historia de México, ser. iv. vol. i. p. 344), opposed his views. The view is advanced by E. L. Berthoud in the Kansas City Review (June, 1883), that a large area between the head of the gulf and the ocean, now below the sea level, was at one time covered with water, and that the island theory was in some way connected with this condition, which is believed to have continued as recently as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.