This chart must have been sent to England by Captain Francis Nelson, who left Virginia June 2, 1608. It is not drawn to an exact scale ; but on comparing it with XLVI. made about the same time, and with CLVIIL, it seems to have been drawn on the basis of about five miles, or say l£ leagues to an inch. It illustrates Captain John Smith's " True Relation " (LIV.), and was sent from Virginia with it. The " Relation" was published in August 1608; but I have never seen an engraving of this chart. I am convinced that copies of this " Relation " and of this chart were taken to Holland by Captain Henry Hudson in the latter part of 1608, and that they are referred to by Hudson as " letters and charts which one Captain Smith had sent him from Virginia, by which he (Smith) informed him (Hudson) that there was a sea leading into the Western Ocean by the North of the Southern English Colony," about the latitude of forty degrees. On December 29, 1608 (O. S.), Captain Hudson, with the information derived by him in his native England, entered into a contract with the Dutch. We have here, with this chart in Spain and with Hudson in Holland with Smith's letters and charts, another strong illustration of the great necessity the Virginia Company was under to keep close its charts, records, etc., and the great danger to them which might result by having in their official service one through whom such things reached outsiders.

Sent from London, England, 10th Sept., 1608, by [Ambassador Pedro de Zúñiga y de la Cueva], to the King of Spain.