Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.) FERDINAND MAGELLAN (from Fiske's _School History of the United States_, by kind permission of Messrs.

Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.) MAP OF THE WORLD, from the Ptolemy Edition of 1548 (after Kretschmer's _Entdeckungsgeschichte Amerikas_) .-- It will be observed that Mexico is supposed to be joined on to Asia, and that the North Pacific was not even known to exist.
RUSSIAN ASIA (after the Atlas published by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1737, by kind permission of Messrs.

Hachette).

Japan is represented as a peninsula.
AUSTRALIA AS KNOWN IN 1745 (from D'Anville's _Atlas_, by kind permission of Messrs.

Hachette) .-- It will be seen that the Northern and Western coasts were even by this time tolerably well mapped out, leaving only the eastern coast to be explored by Cook.
AUSTRALIA, showing routes of explorations (prepared specially for the present volume).