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| A Newsletter of the Texas Map Society Vol III No 2 Winter 2000 | ||
With this issue, we return to a Neatline feature to
bring to the membership a map that appeals to one of our members. You are invited to
submit such maps to the editor, preferably in a black and white print or in a digital
format along with a short commentary. The current commentary is courtesy of Texas Map
Society incoming president, Dennis Reinhartz and the image from the Virginia Garrett
Cartographic History Library, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.
This, perhaps the most famous map of the German-born British cartographer, Herman Moll (1654?-1732), is a concise representation of the British Empire in North America in 1715. Often referred to as the "Beaver Map" because of theinset of the harmonious toiling beavers before the great Niagara Falls, it also is a masterpiece of the Enlightenment engraver’s art.
Left:
Detail depicting the beavers at Niagara Falls.
[Map title:] Moll, Herman. A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America. :London: H. Moll, 1715.
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