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Mississippi River 1775

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Title	Mississippi River 1775
Full Title	Course of the river Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres : taken on an expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the year 1765 / by Lieut. Ross of the 34th Regiment, improved from the surveys of the river made by the French
Creator	Ross, Lieut.
Contributors	Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Publication Date	1775
Map Publisher	Printed for Robt. Sayer
Subject	Mississippi River--Maps--Early works to 1800
Continent	North and Central America
Country	United States
Notes	"London, printed for Robt. Sayer... published as the Act directs 1 June 1775." Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: New Orleans. Hand colored in outline. Sheets mounted together to form 1 sheet. Shows forts, Native American villages, quarries, mines, boundaries, fertile land, cane fields, etc. Includes descriptive notes and note on "Depths of the Mississippi."
Type	image
Scale	[1:890,000]
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : hand col. ; 113 x 35 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 800-c.M5R5 A-1775
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am001829
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2009-12-15
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection