De Espana, lib. xxvi. cap 3).
Toscanelli is called by Columbus Maestro Paulo, which seems to have
led to this mistake; see Sign. G. Uzielli, in Boll. della Soc.
Geog. Ital. IX. p. 119, [Also by the same: Paolo dal Pozzo
Toscanelli iniziatore della scoperta d' America, Florence, 1892;
Toscanelli, No. 1; Toscanelli, Vol. V. of the Raccolta
Colombiana, 1894. - H. C.]
[4] "C'est diminuer l'expression d'un eloge que de l'exagerer."
(Humboldt, Examen, III. 13.)
[5] See vol. ii. p. 318, and vol. i. p. 404.
[6] Vol. i. p. 423.
[7] Vol. ii. p. 85, and Apollonius Rhodius, Argonaut. II. 1012.
[8] Chinese Observers record the length of Comets' tails by cubits!
[9] The map, perhaps, gives too favourable an idea of Marco's geographical
conceptions. For in such a construction much has to be supplied for
which there are no data, and that is apt to take mould from modern
knowledge. Just as in the book illustrations of ninety years ago we
find that Princesses of Abyssinia, damsels of Otaheite, and Beauties
of Mary Stuart's Court have all somehow a savour of the high waists,
low foreheads, and tight garments of 1810.
We are told that Prince Pedro of Portugal in 1426 received from the
Signory of Venice a map which was supposed to be either an original or
a copy of one by Marco Polo's own hand.
