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Encyclopedia Britannica



BRAZIL, or BRASIL

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 438 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRAZIL, or BRASIL , a legendary
island
  in the
Atlantic
  Ocean. The name connects itself with the red dye-woods so called in the middle ages, possibly also applied to other vegetable dyes, and so descending from the Insulae Purpurariae of Pliny. It first appears as the I. de Brazi in the Venetian map of
Andrea
  Bianco (1436), where it is found attached to one of the larger islands of the Azores. When this group became better known and was colonized, the
island
  in question was renamed Terceira. It is probable that the
familiar
  existence of " Brazil " as a geographical name led to its bestowal upon the vast region of
South
  America, which was found to
supply
  dye-woods kindred to those which the name properly denoted. The older memory survived also, and the Island of Brazil retained its place in mid-ocean, some hundred miles to the west of Ireland, both in the traditions of the forecastle and in charts. In J. Purdy's General Chart of the
Atlantic
 , " corrected to 1830," the " Brazil
Rock
  (high) " is marked with no indication of doubt, in 51 10' N. and 150 50' W. In a chart of currents by A.G.
Findlay
 , dated 1853, these names appear again. But in his 12th edition of Purdy's Memoir Descriptive and Explanatory of the N. Atlantic Ocean (1865), the existence of Brazil and some other legendary islands is briefly discussed and rejected. (See also ATLANTIS.)


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