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| Keywords: Mitchell Map-06full2.jpg LargeImage Mitchell Map - A map of the British and French dominions in North America ; 1757 http //hdl loc gov/loc gmd/g3300 ar004000 Library of Congress 1755-1757 John Mitchell; digital version Library of Congress Geography and Map Division The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes and is not aware of any U S copyright protection source http //memory loc gov/cgi-bin/ammemrr pl title Map 20Collections coll gmd div agg g3300 default ammem dir ammem Mitchell Map-06full2 compressed jpg compressed to 19 MB Assessments 1 Mitchell Map PD-old-100 Transcription The first part of the text between Atlantic and Ocean reads After the first drawing of this map in 1750 it was again corrected and improved before it was published and I have since taken Care to procure examine all the information I could get in order to render it as correct usefull as possible; which has given occasion to this Second Edition of it in which I have likewise inserted all the Observations I believe we have for the Geography of N America since I find them grossly misrepresented by others The Foundation of this Map is the several Manuscript Maps Charts Surveys that have been lately made of our Colonies which represent most Places from the Ocean to the Missisipi But in order to know the true Situation of those Places we must have their Latitudes Longitudes which are of more Consequence in a general Map than their bare Shape or Figure which we only find represented in our Draughts Surveys But after having consulted all the Observations I believe that we have I found the true Situation or Latitude Longitude of many Places was undetermined or uncertain; that we had no Accounts of them but what might be found in the Journals of our Ships of War kept in the Admiralty Office; which I had Recourse to for that reason and have extracted from them whatever relates to our purposem which are the chief Source of the Corrections observations here inserted Since the Publication of this Map likewise I have examined compared with other Accounts the Observations of Mr Chabert; which were not made when our Map was first drawn nor known in England till after it was published; so that we neither followed nor rejected them From these Authorities we find but two Alteration necessary in our Map 1 In the Latitude of Cape Race 2 In the Longitude of Cape Sable I Cape Race was laid down in Lat 46° 55' from the Surveys of Capt Gaudy Durell who make it in Lat 47° 2' 46° 57'; and the Observations of Bellin which make it in 46° 50' But by all the accounts in our Ships of War confirmed by those of Chabert it is in Lat 46° 30' or 35' at most; from which and other Observations here inserted we have corrected that and other parts of Newfoundland In the longitude of Cape Race different Reckonings in our Ships from Cape Breton Canso Boston differ 2 Degrees on Account of the Currents and more than Reckonings from Europe 1755 Mitchell Map John Mitchell geographer | ||||
