Sketch of the Western part of the Continent of North America between latitudes 35⁰ and 52⁰N.
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| Format: | Government Document Map |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
[1975]
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| Item Description: | Facsimile. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Relief shown by hachures. This map of an extent of country including more than twenty degrees of latitude, and fifty of longitude was originally drawn under the inspection of William Rector, Esquire, Surveyor of the United States for the territories of Missouri, and Illinois and was by him presented to the General Land Office January 21, 1818. It is probably the most correct map of the country now extant. Signed, Josiah Meigs. Gen. Land Office 21 Jan. 1818. Roberdeau, U.S.S. Engineers. del. 1818.] Cited in Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861; volume 2, Number 328. Original MS map is the National Archives (Record Group Number 77, Ama 6.). Cartographic material. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 map ; 73 x 128 cm. |