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A New map of North America with the West India Islands

Description:

Relief shown pictorially.

Prime meridian: Ferro and London.

Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian.

Bar scales on map: "Geometrical Miles 60 to a Degree", "British Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree", "French Common Land Leagues 25 to a Degree", "Spanish Leagues 26 3/9 to a Degree", "British & French Marine Leagues 20 to a Degree", "Dutch miles, 15 to a Degree", "Leagues for Measuring a Voyage on the Map".

Includes Articles.

Includes decorated cartouche and descriptive notes.

Inset maps: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay. Scale [ca. 1:14,000,000] -- The passage by land to California : discovered by Father Eusebius Francis Kino, a Jesuit between the years 1698 and 1701 ... Scale [ca. 1:5,000,000].

Shows settlements, roads, Indigenous peoples, rivers, etc.

Inset maps : [1] A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay -- [2] The passage by land to California, discovered by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit: between the Years of 1698 and 1701, before which, and for a considerable time since California has always been described in all Charts & Maps as an Island

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wf145bs8790

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wf145bs8790, ocn123905579, and 123905579

Language:

eng

Creator:

Kitchin, Thomas, 1719-1784

Publisher:

Laurie & Whittle

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

British

Date Issued:

1794

Spatial Coverage:

America, North Mexico, North America, New Southwest, Southwest, New, and Mexico, North

Rights:

Images from the David Rumsey Map Center's general collections courtesy of Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false