Collection  C 003: Cutter World Map Collection: Map of North and South America and surrounding oceans, 1750 click here to search map descriptions To thumbnail

         Item Number: 1970:02007.30         Date of map: 1750         Height (inches): 25             Width (inches): 31.5

Title: [Untitled map of North and South America and surrounding oceans] 

   This map, ca. 1750, shows four compass roses with intercepts for both latitude and longitude.  It depicts California as an island and shows the Bay of Fundy with its tributary rivers, and to the north Canada as one large area and Nova Britannica as another area, north of New England.  Mercator (?) projection.  

This map forms part of the Cutter World Map Collection, collection C 003, at the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.
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