New and accurate map of Mexico or New Spain together with California, New Mexico et cetera
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drawn from the best modern maps & charts & regulated by astronl. observns. by Eman: Bowen. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Title cartouche at bottom with illustration alongside depicting European figure holding a sword and standing above two Natives he has restrained. Inset: The Gallapagos Islands discovered & described by Capt. Cowley in 1684. At bottom left outside the border: "No. 110." At top left: "California, which has been Described and Represented as an Island, even by very modern Geographers, was Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit, to be a Peninsula between the Years 1698 and 1701 who, together with other Jesuit Missionaries, travelled thither by Land & converted, a great Number of Natives." At bottom left inside the neatline, under inset map: "West from the Lizard". At bottom right inside the neatline: "West Longitude from London".
Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
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