[509] Second ed. 1739; third, 1744.

[510] He makes the Mohawk, or western branch of the Delaware River, empty into the eastern branch below Burlington. The same writer’s Modern Gazetteer (London, 1746) is only an abbreviation of his history.

The charts of The English Pilot of about this time give the prevailing notions of the coast. The dates vary from 1730 through the rest of the century,—the plates being in some parts changed. In the edition of 1742 (Mount and Page, London) the maps of special interest are: No. 14, New York harbor and vicinity, by Mark Tiddeman; and No. 15, Chesapeake and Delaware bays. The Dutch Atlas van Zeevaert of Ottens may be compared.

[511] Ante, p. 81. The French reproduction is called Nouvelle Carte Particulière de l’Amérique, où sont exactement marquées ... la Nouvelle Bretagne, le Canada, la Nouvelle Écosse, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle York, Pennsylvanie, etc. This is sometimes dated 1756.

[512] Ante, p. 81.

[513] This is the title of the second part of the volume; the first title calls it an Index of all the considerable Provinces, etc., in Europe.

[514] Ante, p. 83. Stevens also notes a little Spanish Exámen sucincto sobre los antiguos Limites de la Acadia, as having a map of about this time. Bibl. Hist. (1870) no. 679.

[515] Cf. ante, p. 81; and the Carte des Possessions Françoises et Angloises dans le Canada et Partie de la Louisiane. À Paris chez le Sieur Longchamps, Geographe (1756).

[516] Morgan’s League of the Iroquois has an eclectic map of their country in 1720.

[517] Governor Burnet, in his letter of December 16, 1723, perhaps alludes to it when he says: “I have likewise enclosed a map of this province, drawn by the surveyor Genll, Dr. Colden, with great exactness from all surveys that have been made formerly and of late in this province;” ... but more probably Colden refers to it, in his letter of December 4, 1726, to Secretary Popple, as “a Map of this Province, which I am preparing by the Governor’s Order.” As this last letter (N. Y. Col. Docs., v. 806) treats mainly of quit-rents, and as this map illustrates the same as fixed in the various patents, it is most likely that the latter is the map now under consideration. There is a map of the Livingston manor (1714) in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii. 414, and papers concerning it (1680-1795) are in the same. A map of the Van Rensselaer manor (1767) is in Idem., iii. 552. Cf. Mag. of Amer. Hist., Jan., 1884, with views and portraits.