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Claude Bernou Carte de lAmerique septentrionale
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Claude Bernou Carte de lAmerique septentrionale

Map of the northern part and parts of the southern parts of the America, from the mouth of the Saint Laurent River to the Island of Cayenne,with the new discoveries of the Mississipi (or Colbert) River. This map shows the results of the expeditions of Father Marquette and L. Jolliet (1673) and the Cavelier de la Salle expedition in the Mississipi valley. The map shows three forts built between 1679 and 1680: Conty fort (near Niagara Falls), Miamis Fort (south of Michigan lake), and Crèvecœur fort (Left bank of the Illinois River). Mississippi river course is only shown upstream of Ohio confluence. Also featured: Iroquois, indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes Region, Susquehannock, Powhatan

Date
c. 1681
Mapmaker / publisher
Bernou, Claude (b. 16.–d. 17.), Abbot
Place
North America
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,841 × 3,641 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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