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A new and accurate map of North America
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A new and accurate map of North America

Scale ca. 1:6,360,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. "West longitude from Ferro." Differs from other copies in coloration and boundaries. Map is colored in. Long Island is colored as being attached to New York. St. John and Isle Royal are colored as being attached to Nova Scotia. A boundary has been added from "Lake Almipigon" north to the edge of the map. Shows area east of Louisiana. Vault AACR2

Date
1771
Mapmaker / publisher
Bell, Peter; Seale, Richard William; Bowles, Carington; Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D
Place
North America
Scale
1:6,360,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,560 × 6,110 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"A new and accurate map of North America" (1771). Bell, Peter; Seale, Richard William; Bowles, Carington; Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_accurate_map_of_North_America,_LOC_74693987.jpg

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