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Mapping the New World |
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Thomas
Jefferys, A new map of the Province of Quebec, 1775
From
the early 1730s onwards, Thomas Jefferys (c. 1695-1771) was publishing a variety
of maps in London. Some came out in periodicals like The Gentleman’s
Magazine, and other separate maps show the English counties. During the
1750s, he worked a good deal on maps of North America and the West Indies, no
doubt acquiring material for his great American Atlas, published in 1775.
This publication by no means covered the whole of America (only three of
the 23 maps showed Central and South America), and it was not strictly an atlas,
in that the maps were not of uniform size. But they did offer an unrivalled
image of North America, at the start of the Revolutionary War.
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