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• Title:Sketch of North America shewing the proposed route of Capt. Back.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Bradbury, C, lithographer.
  Back, George, 1796-1878 surveyor.
  Day, W., printer.
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Published for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, by John Murray, Albemarle St., 1833.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3301.S12 1833 .S63
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878--Travel--Maps.
  Canada--Maps.
  North America--Maps.
  
• Description:Scale not given ; (W 125°--W 70°/N 80°--N 40°)
  1 map : colored ; 24 x 30 cm.
  
• Summary:Map with hand-coloured outline showing the proposed route of George Black in red, from New York to Montreal, along the Great Lakes to Slave Lake.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_196
  
• Notes:No relief shown.
  Map removed from source: Captain Back. "Account of the Route to Be Pursued by the Arctic Land Expedition in Search of Captain Ross". The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. 3. London: John Murray, 1833. p. 64-71.
  Lower margin: "W. Day 17 Gate St., Printer."
  "C. Bradbury Lithg.".