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Item Number: 1970:02007.22            Date of map: 1787       Title: North America, drawn from the latest and best authorities

   Cartographer (personal name name): Kitchin, T.                            Height (inches): 15.7               Width (inches): 18.7

   This map shows states along the Eastern Seabord, mentions discoveries of the West Coast of North America, shows locations of Indian tribes and a few other ethnic groups, communities and settlements, and notes unknown heads of rivers.  It mentions the legendary Quivara (an alternative name for southwestern North America).  Shows New Albion in California (California is shown as a peninsula), and depicts Canada as a major area north of the present U.S. and south of New Britain and New South Wales, and depicts "mountains of bright stones," bison ("buffaloes"), and "meadows."  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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