[128] There are portraits and notices of the two in the Allg. Geog. Ephemeriden, published at Weimar, 1802 (vol. x.).
[129] An Atlas Nouveau of forty-eight maps was issued at Amsterdam, with the name of Guillaume Delisle, in 1720, and with later dates. The maps measure 25 × 21 inches.
[130] There are modern reproductions of it in French’s Hist. Coll. of Louisiana, vol. ii., as dated 1707; in Cassell’s United States, i. 475; and for the upper portion in Winchell’s Geol. Survey of Minnesota, Final Report, vol. i. p. 20. The lower part of it is given in the present work, Vol. II. p. 294.
[131] Géol. practique de la Louisiane, p. 209.
[132] N. Y. Col. Docs., v. 577.
[133] Cf. Bulletin de la Soc. de Géog. d’Anvers, vii. 462. De Fer was born in 1646; died in 1720. His likeness is in Allg. Geog. Ephemeriden, Sept., 1803, p. 265.
[134] This map is worth about $10.00. Moll also published in 1715 a Map of North America, with vignettes by Geo. Vertue,—size 38 × 23 inches. Moll’s maps at this time were made up into collections of various dates and titles.
[135] This map of North America is reproduced in Lindsey’s Unsettled Boundaries of Ontario, Toronto, 1873. It shows a view of the Indian fort on the “Sasquesahanoch.” Moll’s Minor Atlas, a new and curious set of sixty-two maps, eighteen of which relate to America, was issued in London, without date, ten or fifteen years later. Cf. also “A new map of Louisiana and the river Mississipi,” in Some Considerations on the consequences of the French settling Colonies on the Mississippi, from a gentleman of America to his friend in London. London, 1720.
[136] Thomassy, p. 212.
[137] Senex issued a revision of a map of North America this same year, size 22 X 19 inches. Between 1710 and 1725 Senex’s maps were often gathered into atlases, containing usually about 36 maps.