(Great Lakes) Carte Des Lacs Du Canada Novelties China & Japan &c

China & Japan &c

Image size is 22 X 19

At the time it was the main conduit for getting the mail throughout the West

and just above it is a speculative "River of the West" running from a Canadian lake to the Pacific

The Indian reservations are noted

(Great Lakes) Carte Des Lacs Du Canada Novelties China & Japan &cCarte Des Lacs Du Canada Pour servir A very attractive well engraved map of the five lakes. The map is typical in many ways of maps of the lakes at this time but it sends Lake Michigan quite far south and east giving the Michigan peninsula an odd look. Lake Superior is on the large side and Lake Huron resembles an east west shaped football. Bellin had been one of the earliest cartographers to include the fictitious Isle Philippeaux on his maps (in