| Cartographer | Brasier, William |
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| Cartographer | Pittman, Philip, active 1760-1770 |
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| Former owner | Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 |
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| Former owner | Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies |
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| Date | [ca. 1770] |
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| Scale | Scale approximately 1:155,000 |
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| Language | English |
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| Location | British Library |
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| Collection (local) | British Library Collection |
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| Subjects | - Rivers--Mississippi River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Mississippi River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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| Places | - Mississippi River
- North and Central America
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| Extent | 1 map on 3 sheets : joined, manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 97 x 38 cm |
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| Terms and License | - No known copyright restrictions.
- This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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| Notes | - Date of production from previous British Library cataloguing.
- Relief shown by shading.
- Oriented with north to the left of the map, indicated by a decorative compass rose.
- Geographic detail shown on river only. Detail extends northwards along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to "Rock of Davion" (present-day Fort Adam).
- Shows forts.
- Shows scale bar in French computed leagues.
- Copy at Add Ms 57,714.17. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "17" in pencil at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "13a". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 2". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/89". Shows "A 95" in pencil to verso.
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