Excerpt from The Map of the World, A. D. 1600: Called by Shakspere "the New Map, "With the Augmentation of the Indies" One thing which gives this-map special interest-is that it appeared in the year that the East India Company was formed; so that it shows the state of knowledge just before the Company's operations were commenced. Great pains were evidently taken to obtain information from the charts of the Portuguese, and from Linschoten. We can trace, also, the hand of Davis in the delineation of Sumatra and Java, and in the names Achen and Bantam. Japan, Corea, and the Yellow Sea first assume an approach to their cor rect shapes in this map. The result was a notable improve ment on all former maps as regards the eastern seas, well deserving Shakspere's description, The New Map, with the augmentation of the Indies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.