Note 1062 — Chapter VII · (continued 2)

The cartography of these three books deserves discrimination. In De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld of Montanus (Amsterdam, 1670-71) the map of America, “per Gerardum a Schagen,” represents the great lakes beyond Ontario merged into one. The German version, Die unbekante Neue Welt, of Olfert Dapper has the same map, newly engraved, and marked “per Jacobum Meursium.” Ogilby’s English version, America, being an accurate description of the New World (London, 1670), though using for the most part the plates of Montanus, has a wholly different map of America, “per Johannem Ogiluium.” This volume has an extra map of the Chesapeake, in addition to the Montanus one, beside English maps of Jamaica and Barbadoes, not in Montanus. These maps are repeated in the second edition, which is made up of the same sheets, to which an appendix is added, and a new title, reading, America, being the latest and most accurate description of the new world. It will be remembered that Pope, in the Dunciad (i. 141), mocked at Ogilby for his ponderous folio,—