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Mapping the New World |
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Covens
and Mortier, America, c. 1770
This
is one of a number of wall-maps preserved in the Kraus Collection at the Harry
Ransom Center for the Humanities.
It is an apparently unrecorded edition, dedicated to Charles III of
Spain, whose portrait is in the cartouche. The work is very elegant, but far
from abreast of the latest geographical
findings. It was well known by the middle of the eighteenth century, for
instance, that California was not an island, and the outlines of the Great Lakes
were in fact well understood.
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