Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec Fleuve de St. Laurence

Map of north eastern Canada and parts of New England, showing settlements, cities, portages, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The unusual vertical format elongates the land and distorts its shape, but the map is remarkably detailed, including both European and Native American plac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lotter, Tobias Conrad
Language:French
Published: T. Conr. Lotter 1756
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Online Access:http://cdm15932.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/maps,17695
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Summary:Map of north eastern Canada and parts of New England, showing settlements, cities, portages, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The unusual vertical format elongates the land and distorts its shape, but the map is remarkably detailed, including both European and Native American place names. The pictorial representations of mountains are fairly ornate, and two large illustrated scenes fill the lower right and upper left corners. The lower right corner features several types of ships on the waves of the ocean. The upper left corner, the title cartouche, features numerous scenes and imagery of Poseidon and Artemis (representing the land and sea), Indian chiefs, explorers, and Hermes and Ares watching over a mapmaker, a fleet of ships, fishermen and wildlife.