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Item
Number: 1970:02007.32
Date of
map: 1780
Place
of publication: Amsterdam
Title:
L’Amerique
septentrionale [map of North America and the northern tip of South America]
Cartographer
(corporate name): Royal Academy of Sciences
Height
(inches): 22.2
Width (inches):
26
This map, ca, 1780,
includes notes re: discoveries, shows locations of Indians (Pays des Illinois,
Pays des Iroquois, Terre des Esquimaux, et al.), communities in the Southwest
and along the Atlantic Coast, and some of the American colonies, mentions the
legendary Quivara (an alternative name for southwestern North America), and
shows California as a peninsula and Greenland also as a peninsula, designated
in two parts, North and South Greenland.
Shows Canada as Nouveau France. Conical
projection.
This
map forms part of the Cutter World Map Collection, collection C 003, at the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis
College.
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Fort Lewis College
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