Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Doubtful in this respect is only Finland Gulf (
“Sinus
Finlandicus”
in the map), which is
situated north-south instead of rather east-west.
In the north part of the map there is today's north-western coast of Russia. Far eastern part
of the coast in geographical sense reaches the Ural mountains and the lower course of the
Ob river. The river discharges into so-called North Sea (“
Mare Septentrionale”
) - today's Kara
Sea. The source of the Ob river in the map is in mysterious Chinese Lake
(“Kitaia Lacvs”
). On
the opposite side of the lake, i.e. from the south, the river continues its course, however not
as the Ob but the Sur river, which bifurcates in its upper course in the
“Shamarghan”
and
“Baida”
regions. The tributary of the Sur is
“Amow”
river.
Figure 1.
Jenkinson's genuine copy, 1562 (size of the map see in text). From Wrocław University
Library cartographic collection
An eastern part of the map, i.e. east of Ob and Sur rivers, covers quite a wide space of this
part of the map. However, geographically this is a rather poor fragment. Namely, there are
only names of the following regions, going from the north:
“Casackia”
, “
Samoyeda
” and
“Molgomzaia”, “Baida”
and
“Colmac”.
In the south part of the map we can see the name
“Persia”
and in the lower right-hand corner there are
“Mhoghol”
and
”Kirges”.
To the north
there is
“Taskent”,
where the Sur river takes its source. In the most south-eastern end of the
map there is a city called
“Audeghen”.
In south-western part is the Black Sea but it has been
almost wholly covered by the cartouche with the dedication for the sponsor of the map.
Above this cartouche we can read the names of
“Lithuania”
and
“Livonia”.
In the western
part is the above mentioned Finland Gulf and White Sea, named not as it is today but as the
gulf of the “
North Sea
”(“
Mare Septentrionale
” on the map)
