| Dimensions: 74 x 53 cm. (each of 8 sheets) |
| Added_person: Hawkins, Brigadier |
| General_note: inset: "Nouvelle Carte de la Baye d'Hudson et de Labrador" |
| General_note: The statement appearing for the first time in the 3rd French edition, "Corrig‚e en 1776 par M. Hawkins Brigadier des arm‚es du Roi," is matched by the corresponding note in German, "Verbessert 1776." One of the "improvements" or "corrections" appears to have been a hand-entered proper name "Ticonderago" at the location of the fort of approximately that name near the "Lac George" outlet. |
| General_note: There is an additional printed note in German explaining the demarcation of the territories claimed by Frankreich and Egland [sic] with hand-colored lines. |
| Extent: 1 printed map on 8 separate sheets of 2 joined pieces each |
| Dimensions: 133 x 195 cm. (overall plates, as matched by image) |
| Medium: black ink on paper, backed with cloth |
| Added_person: le Rouge, George Louis |
| Local_note: neg #58335 |
| General_note: This is the 3rd Paris edition, 2nd impression of John Mitchell's 1755 map of North America, with all of the proper names translated into French (by and?) for George Louis le Rouge. See NYHS map 9508, the 1st edition, 1st impression, and NYHS map 8616, the 1st edition, 3rd impression. See also the Society's "red-line" Mitchell map, the (1774?) fourth London edition, used by John Jay, Franklin, et al. in the 1782-1783 negotiations to settle boundaries between England and the United States. |
