[501] Papers relative to the trade and manufactures of New York, 1705-1757, are in Doc. Hist. N. Y., i.
[502] [Page 79, ante. Since that other description of maps in this volume was finally made, there has been issued (1885), in two large volumes, a Catal. of the printed maps, plans, and charts in the British Museum, in which, under the heads of America, New York, etc., will be found extensive enumerations of maps of the eighteenth century.—Ed.]
[503] The drafts of Delisle particularly were the bases of many maps a long way into the eighteenth century. See Catal. Maps, Brit. Mus., 1885.
[504] For example, the Geography anatomiz’d or the Geographical Grammar, by Pat. Gordon (London, 1708), makes the St. Lawrence divide “Terra Canadensis” into north and south parts, of which last section New York (discovered by Hudson in 1608) is a subdivision, as are New Jersey (discovered by the English, “under the conduct of the Cabots,” in 1497) and Pennsylvania, of which it is blindly said that it was discovered “at the same time with the rest of the adjacent continent.” The western limit of these provinces bounds on “Terra Arctica.”
[505] For example, the map without date or imprint, called Pennsylvania, Nova Jersey et Nova York cum Regionibus ad Fluvium Delaware in America sitis. Nova Delineatione ob oculos posita per Matth. Scutterum, Sanctae Caes. Maj. Geographum, Aug. Vind. It places “Dynastia Albany,” “St. Antoni Wildniss,” or “Desertum orientale,” near the junction of the two branches of the Susquehanna River. New York city is on the mainland, from which Long Island is separated by a narrow watercourse.
Another, equally wild in its license, is a Carte Nouvelle de l’Amérique Angloise, etc., Dressée sur les Relations les plus Nouvelles. Par le Sieur S. à Amsterdam chez Pierre Mortier, Libraire, avec Privilége de nos Seigneurs. Lake Erie (Lac Fells) is misshapen, and the Ohio River is ignored.
A common error in the maps of this period, based on Dutch notions, is to place Lakes Champlain and George east of the Connecticut, as is shown in the Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova of Allard’s Minor Atlas, usually undated, but of about 1700. The same atlas also contains (no. 32) a map showing the country from the Penobscot to the Chesapeake, called Totius Neobelgii nova tabula.
[506] [He was born in 1664, and had since 1687 been occupied in his art. During 1701-06 he was at Leipzig, at work on the maps in Cellarius; then he contributed to the geography of Scherer, which appeared in 1710. Homann published what he called an Atlas Novas in 1711, and an Atlas Methodicus in 1719.—Ed.]
[507] Including one without date: Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque Coloniis florentissima, Geographiae exhibita a Joh. Baptista Homann, Sac. Caes. Maj. Geographo, Norimbergae, cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj. “Novum Belgium, Nieuw Nederland nunc New Jork,” occupies the territory bounded by a north and south line from Lac St. Pierre (St. Lawrence River) through Lakes Champlain and George to about Point Judith on the Sound. In the northwest corner of New York we find “Le Grand Sault St. Louis;” in the southwest, “Sennecaas Lacus,” from which the Delaware River and a tributary of the Hudson, “Groote Esopus River,” emerge. The “Versche River,” the Dutch name for the Connecticut, runs west of Lake George.
[508] See ante, pp. 80, 133. Sabin gives editions of his Atlas in 1701, 1709, 1711, 1717, 1719, 1723, 1732. Moll’s map of the New England and middle colonies in 1741 is in Oldmixon’s British Empire. His drafts were the bases of the general American maps of Bowen’s Geography (1747) and Harris’s Voyages (1764). Cf. Catal. Maps, Brit. Mus. (1885), under Moll, and pp. 2969-70.