Near the close of the century we come to the earliest of the French marine atlases, the Neptune Français, which Jaillot published in its enlarged form in 1693; but not till a Suite du Neptune Français was issued in 1700 did any charts of American coasts make part of it. This contained eleven on America, professing to be based on Sanson’s drafts.
[THE MAPS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,]
SHOWING CANADA.
BY THE EDITOR.
[Detailed maps of the Upper Lakes and the Mississippi Basin, as well as those produced by Hennepin, though connected with this period, are made the subject of separate treatment elsewhere in the present volume. The general atlases are treated in the next preceding pages.]
MOLINEAUX, 1600.
The key is as follows:
1. Discovered by Cabot.