Collection  C 003: Cutter World Map Collection: Map of North America, 1795 click here to search map descriptions To thumbnail

                  Item Number: 1970:02007.11          Date of map: 1795               Height (inches): 16            Width (inches): 19.2

Title: A general map of North America, drawn from the best surveys of 1795 

   This map shows the locations of states and cities on the Eastern Seaboard and a few settlements elsewhere.  Indians of the Far North are named.  The map indicates a sea described by 18th century explorers, with Greenland as a peninsula north of North America and divided into east and west parts.  The map infers (by reference to explorers of the 18th century) the existence of a sea (Arctic Ocean, seen by MacKenzie in 1789); Canada is depicted as a large area south of Labrador, north of the present U.S., and south of New South Wales.  Curved 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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