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• Title:A Map Shewing the Communication of the Lakes and the Rivers between Lake Superior and Slave Lake in North America.
  
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• Author/Creator:Pond, Peter, 1740-1807, cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[London] : [J. Nichols and D. Henry], 1790.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3400 1790 .P65
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Canada--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Canada, Western--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  North America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:17,500,000 ; (W 155°--W 75°/N 70°--N 45°)
  1 map : colored ; 28. 3 cm in diameter, on sheet 38. 2 x 52. 4 cm.
  
• Summary:Hand coloured copper engraved print of North America, primarily Canada, west of The Lake of the Woods and Hudson's Bay, featuring a series of roads and lakes. Also depicts the Queen Charlotte Islands.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_156
  
• Notes:Relief shown by hachures.
  "Gent. Mag. March ..." appears in upper right margin. The remainder of the date is unreadable. Map proobably removed from source: Urban, Sylvanus. "A Map Shewing the Communication of the Lakes and the Rivers Between Lake Superior and Slave Lake in North America." Gentleman's Magazine 60 (1). J. Nichols and D. Henry: London, 1790, page 197.
  Prime meridian: London.