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1744 reprint of a 1684 English map of the Galapagos Islands

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English: The Galapagos Islands Discovered and Described by Capt. Cowley in 1684.


These Islands derive their Name from the Resort of Tortoises to them in order to lay their Eggs for in Spanish Gallapagos signifies a Tortoise. The Buccaneers who had frequent occasion for such Places sailed thither often and found them very convenient Retreats. Capt. Woodes Rogers who had a very indifferent opinion of Discoveries made by these sort of people, complains that he was deceived by one Capt. Davis's account of these Islands, and asserts that he could not find a drop of Fresh Water upon any of them, yet succeeding Navigators have found them agreeable to this Description which is indeed the only good one we have. The Spaniards mention an Island in the Latitude of 1°. 20′. or 30′ S. which they call St. Maria de l'Aguada full of Wood, having plenty of Fresh Water and affording other Conveniences.

An uncolored copy of the Emanuel Bowen map included for the revision of Harris's 1705 Navigatium... first published in 1744.
Date Printed 1744 or after, from a c. 1744 revision of a 1684 original
Source Mistakenly uploaded over File:Gallapagos Islands 1684.jpg by an editor claiming to have stolen it from a slide sourced to a library in Guayaquil. Actually from the 1744 revision of John Harris's 1705 Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1, p. 79, or a subsequent reprint of that edition.
Author Emanuel Bowen, from an original by William Ambrosia Cowley

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