Carte des parties Nord et Ouest de L'Amerique dressee de apres les relations les plus authentiques par M en, 1764. Nouvelle edition reduite par M de Vaugondy en 1772

Taken from title: "From: Diderot, Encyclopædie, v. 5 (Supplement) 1779." Samuel Engel's map of North America, republished here, was issued in his Memoires Observations Geographiques in 1765, and shows a series of non-existent water courses across North America, with no less than 4 riv...

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Main Author: Engel, Samuel, 1702-1784; Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Format: Still Image
Language:French
Published: [Paris] : [Publisher not identified] 1772
Subjects:
North America > Maps > Early works to 1800
Northwest Passage
Pacific
Northwest passage
Online Access:http://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/cdm/ref/collection/kis0001/id/3928
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Summary:Taken from title: "From: Diderot, Encyclopædie, v. 5 (Supplement) 1779." Samuel Engel's map of North America, republished here, was issued in his Memoires Observations Geographiques in 1765, and shows a series of non-existent water courses across North America, with no less than 4 rivers reaching from the Pacific to the Rocky Mountains and one nearly to the Mississippi, commencing near Puget Sound. This contributed to much speculation about a Northwest Passage.

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