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special interest as it shows how difficult it was for the cartographers to abandon Ptolemy,
even at a time when fresh discoveries had proved him to be wrong, and it is a
compromise between the classical geography and the epoch of the great dis-
coveries.¹
In Ramusio's famous collection of Navigation and Voyages we find two maps
drawn by Gastaldi and representing both Indian Peninsulæ² (Pl. XVI). The Farther
Indian Peninsula is so far interesting that it shows us, clearly for the first time,
the great lake Lago de Chiamay in upper Burma, a curious phenomenon indeed on
the maps of those days, and to which we shall return in a later chapter. Otherwise
the outlines of the two Peninsulæ show the characteristic form always given to them
by Gastaldi.
We now have to consider a most important and epoch making map namely
Tertia Pars Asiæ by Jacopo Gastaldi, 1561, Pl. XVII.³ The northern mountains
which hitherto have formed one range stretching east to west, is now dissolved into
many ramifications, groups and systems in all directions.⁴ The central part of the
Himalaya is still very narrow, though it consists of a double range separating India
from Diserto de Camvl. Towards the west, this partition wall widens out to a regular
mountain knot corresponding to the Pamirs, Badakshan, Chitral, etc. The classical
names for Himalaya, Imaus, Emodus, etc., have disappeared, and in their place we
find three new names, from west to east: Monte Dalangver, Monte Naugracot, and
Monte Vssonte, which, for a long time to come, should reappear on nearly all Eu-
ropean maps.⁵
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