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North America, Drawn from the Best Authorities by J. Russell



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    North America, Drawn from the Best Authorities by J. Russell

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    Kashnor notes, "Shows a good coastline to the North-West as far as then known. Locates San Francisco, Puerto de Monterey, and St. Pedro. Shows a lake 'laid down according to Mr. Laurence who is said to have traveled through this country to California in 1790 and 1791." See also 105:277 for a later edition of this map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: 1799. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 276.

    105:276 M

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    British Colonies in North America Drawn from the best Authorities by J. Russell

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    Kashnor notes, "Shows the country north-west to the mouth of the Mackenzie, with all the territory from Lake Winnipeg, showing the forts of the Hudson's Bay Company." Rocky Mountains are stated to be 3520 feet high. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 494 36 57.

    105:494 M

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    States of America, Drawn from the Best Authorities by J. Russell

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    Kashnor notes, "Locates the Land Grants of Col. Simms, Donation Lands of Virginia, and the Ohio Company in Ohio, and the Illinois, New Jersey, and Wabash Companies in Illinois." "J. C. Russell sculpsit." This map is related to McCorkle 795.10 but with different appeared in information. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 648.

    105:648 M

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    North America Drawn from the latest and best Authorities

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    Kashnor notes, "Shows the California coast north the Juan de Fuca Strait, with the entrance of Aguilar in the locality of the Columbia River and as the outlet of the River of the West." Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Polar, dual hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 278.

    105:278 S

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    Map of the United States of North America Drawn from a number of Critical Researches By A. Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. No. 10 Soho Square

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    Kashnor notes, "Takes in the territory to the Mississippi and part of Louisiana. Shows Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois as States with recognised boundaries, and has an extra slip showing Lake of the Woods and Lake Winnipeg." Also a pasted addition showing the Mississippi delta. See also 105:627, 105:628 for earlier versions. Kashnor dates this copy as 1819. Cartouche: Niagara Falls. . Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial & hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: IV V VI Vii MS note: 629.

    105:629 M

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    The British Colonies in North America : from the best authorities

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    A version of this map appeared in A new system of modern geography, volume 2, page 231, but the catalogue entry for RB 90030, dated 1794 (in which the map is lacking), notes that today the maps are rarely found bound in copies of The new system. Detail along the southern coast of Baffin Bay suggests a later date of publication. MS notes: 920 1801. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crowned shield, G? S. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: British on North.

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