Note 86 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

M. D’Avezac, in the Bulletin de la Soc. Géog., Quar. Ser., xiv., 271, 272, 1857, and Dr. Asher in his Henry Hudson (Hakluyt Soc.), pp. lxviii, 261, 1860, both express the opinion that Clement Adams deliberately altered the date from 1494 to 1497, the latter being the date copied by Hakluyt into his extract from Adams’s map, as published in the third volume of his fol. of 1600; neither of these writers being aware of the fact that in Hakluyt’s first citation from Adams’s map, in his folio of 1589, the date 1494 was given. All we know of Adams’s map is derived from Hakluyt; and as an additional evidence that the extract cited from it bore the date 1494, we have Hakluyt’s previous statement, in his Discourse on Westerne Planting, cited above, where this fact is clearly affirmed.