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[1]

The Huth Library (1880), V, 1594-5.

[2]

In Joseph Sabin, Bibliotheca Americana, a Dictionary of Books Relating to America (1936), XXVIII, No. 104191. Besides this, the chief notices of the Farrer map are P. L. Phillips, Virginia Cartography (Washington, 1896), pp. 30-33; and Justin Windsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, (1884), III, 168, 464-5.

[3]

Robert Dudley, Arcano Del Mare, (Florence, 1646-7). It was reissued in 1661. The correct naming and location of the York and Rappahannock Rivers and of Capes May and James were new with Dudley and were followed by Farrer.

[4]

H. R. Plomer, Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers, 1641 to 1667. (1907), pp. 89-90, 142, 172. (Hardesty entered Williams' book early in 1650: Stationers Register, ed. Eyre and Rivington, I, 335.)