The distance might mean 1500 miles to the westward of the English coast, on about the parallel of kondon, where Biancho drew the m;p. The iuforumtion would come from some expedition in the days of Villiam Canyng. x

About twenty years later, voyages of discovery began to be dispatched from Bristol, to discover or re-discover n island called Brazil, reported to be in the ocean to the westward of Irehind. Villiam Botouer ]mew something about one of these voyages, hccause his brother-in-law, John Jay, took part iu it. He says that the commandcr's name was Thylde, and that he was the most scientific seamau in all Eugland. Sailing from thc port of Bristol, ou the 15th of July, 14, he preceded Columbus by upwards of welve years. His task, however, was far more difficult and perilous thau that of the Geuoese. Columbus merely mu down the trades in lovely weather. But Thylde and his gallant Englishmen, in little vessel of 80 tons, had to hattie against the gales of the North Atlantic in the roaring forties. They failed to discover land, hut they deserved success. The time occupied by the voyages of Columhus and Thylde respectively was about the same, one sixty- nine and the other sixty-four days; but while the Spaniards enjoyed the pleasant weather of the trade wind, the English adventttre. fought brave fight against the mighty seas and adverse gales the boisterous North Atlantic. Thylde returned to Bristol on the 1,Sth of September; and we owe it to the accident that one of his crew was related to one out of the very few chroniclers of that time, that any record was preserved of the existence of the most scientific seaman in all Englaud, or of his voyage of discovery. Other similar voyages followed; but the English sailors, in their more stoutly latitudes, had no trade wind to carry them easily across the ocean while Thylde, as scientific observer, for a long time had no English successor. The unknown facts which led to the insertion of the coast-line on the margin of Andrea ]3iancho's map, possibly accouut for the subsequent efforts of Thylde and others to re- discover that land which they called razil. It seems certain, fnml what we are told hy Villiam Botoner, that such efforts were actually made.

The minds of English mariners were thus quite prepared another attempt, when the news of the discoveries of Columbus

Mr. ule Ol,lham, Imwever, suggests a Portuguese source for the information

whit'h induced Biancho to draw the outline on the margin of his map.