[138] Thomassy, p. 214.
[139] Sabin, ix. 37,600. Ker was a secret agent of the British government, and Curl, the publisher, was pilloried for issuing the book.
[140] Géologie practique de la Louisiane, p. 2.
[141] Homann, b. 1663; d. at Nuremberg, 1724. There is an account of him in the Allg. Geog. Ephemeriden, Nov., 1801. There are extracts from the despatches of the Governors of Canada, 1716-1726, respecting the controversy over the bounds between the French and English in N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 960.
[142] Sabin, xv. 64,140.
[143] His Œuvres Géographiques were published collectively at Paris in five volumes in 1744-45. The atlases which pass under his name bear dates usually from 1743 to 1767, the separate maps being distinctively dated, as those of North America in 1746; those of South America in 1748; those of Canada and Louisiana, 1732, 1755, etc.
[144] The upper part of it is reproduced in Andreas’s Chicago, i. 59.
[145] These maps are reproduced in Dr. Shea’s translation of Charlevoix. The map showing the respective possessions of the French, English, and Spanish is reproduced in Bonnechose’s Montcalm et le Canada français, 5th ed., Paris, 1882. By this the English are confined from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida between the Appalachian range and the sea.
[146] Thomassy, p. 219. It is said that the maps first published by Bellin were not thought by the French government sufficiently favorable to their territorial claims, and accordingly he published a new set, better favoring the French. When Shirley, speaking with Bellin, referred to this, Bellin is said to have answered, “We in France must obey the King’s command.”
[147] Page 218.