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Here for your browsing pleasure is an unusual map of the Great Lakes; Carte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent dans le grand fleuve de Missisipi sic ... ; Carte que les Gnacsitares : ont dessine sur des paux de cerfs . It was made in 1703.
West (U.S.).
Map covers area of Minnesota River, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Mississippi River south to Saint Louis. Map covers the area west of the Minnesota River. Both maps drawn within same neat lines, divided by parallel dashed lines with caption "Separation des ces deux cartes." Appears in author's Mémoires de l'Amérique septentrionale, v. 2, of his Nouveaux voyages, La Haye, 1703. Described in Wheat's Mapping the transmississippi west, v. 1, pp. 60-61. Includes ill. Scale ca. 1:6,500,000.
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