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Title: North America
Creator: Hewitt, N.R
Contributor: John Thomson & Co, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1814
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: Kashnor notes, "Shows the western coast from old California to Alaska and Icy Cape, locating Port Vancouver, San Francisco, Monterey, and other California towns; also shows the Missouri and its tributaries from Lewis' map. Locates all the forts of the company in Hudson Bay territory." Note "Longitude West of Greenwich" is shown on the map, but the 0° longitude line is at 180° and values proceed eastward from that point. Unexplained crosses along coastline from Cape Mendocino northward. Upper right, partial sticker "No. -". Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 562.
Type: image
Extent: 1 map ; outline col. ; 50 x 60 cm., sheet 53 x 65 cm.
Identifier: 093:562 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/10008
Language: English
Time Period: 1814
Place: North America
W 180°
W 15°/N 80°
N 25°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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