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Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. "Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783." Includes historic notes. Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays ca. 1:18,000,000 --A map of the country between Montreal, Albany and Oswego ca. 1:2,360,000

Date
1783
Mapmaker / publisher
Bowles, Carington
Place
North America
Scale
1:5,500,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
13,936 × 12,271 pixels

Public domainsafest

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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"Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the" (1783). Bowles, Carington. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowles%27s_new_map_of_North_America_and_the_West_Indies,_exhibiting_the_British_Empire_therein_with_the_limits_and_boundaries_of_the_United_States_as_also_the_dominions_possessed_in_that_quarter,_by_the_LOC_gm71005458.jpg

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