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[A circular map of the northern hemisphere as seen from ...]

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Date:

1699, [September], [25]

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MG17-A1

Item no. (creator):

164

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Item ID number:

3069673

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Fonds du Vatican. Archives secrètes

Secrétairerie d'État

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Date(s):

1699, [September], [25]

Place:

Paris,

Language of material:

French

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A circular map of the northern hemisphere as seen from the north pole. North and South America are labelled as such separately and together they are labelled "America or West Indies". North America has a territorial label "Canada or New France" which stretches across the continent north of the Great Lakes (the latter are depicted but not named) and the following North American toponyms are shown: "Baffin Bay" [Foxe Basin?], "New Denmark" [mainland area northwest of Hudson Bay], "Cumberland Island" [Victoria Island], Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, "New Britain" [Labrador], "Brest" [Battle Harbour, Labrador?], Newfoundland, Tadoussac, Québec, St. Lawrence River, "Huron's Island" [Manitoulin Island?], "Trace Island" [Isle-Royale in Lake Superior?], New Mexico [territory], "California Island" [which stretches along the coast of the western United States], "Strait of Anien" [on the northern end of "California Island, Juan de Fuca Strait?], "River of the North" [Rio Bravo del Norte shown as n

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MSS1595

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orthern extension of "Rio Bravo" [Rio Grande] which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, Santa Fe [on the Rio Bravo del Norte], Mississippi River, Florida [territory] St. Mathew [St. Marys, Florida?], St. Augustine [Florida], Virginia [territory], New York, Boston, Nova Scotia [territory] and Sable Island

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Segreteria di Stato, Francia

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MG17-A1
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