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Collection  C 003:
Cutter World Map Collection:

Map of North and South America, 1626
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                  Item Number: 1970:02007.12          Date of map: 1626

Title: America, with those known parts in that unknown world, both people and manner of buildings

   Cartographer (personal name): Speed, John         Height (inches): 17    Width (inches): 21.5

   This map shows locations of communities, with Native towns modeled in the margins of the map.  It refers to the Northwest Passage and shows Greenland as a peninsula of the Arctic Continent and depicts whales in the oceans.  It shows the legendary gold-rich lost city of El Dorado/ Manoa and Lake Parime.  Both California and Tierra del Fuego are shown as islands.  Canada is drawn as a small area west of the St. Lawrence River.  The Rocky Mountains and Appalachians are connected by an east-west range.  The Colorado River (Rio del Norte) is shown as if it were draining the Great Salt Lake.  The Great Lakes are not shown.  Curved projection.

Below are digital views of the two pages of textual descriptions that are on the back of this map.  First, the back right, then ("Page 10") the back left.

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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