Ronald Vere Tooley, the prominent English map historian, writes of Cary, "As an engraver he was elegant and exact with fine clear lettering and great delicacy of touch." Cary began his work as an engraver, cartographer, and globe maker in 1776 with his New and Correct English Atlas. John Cary (1754 - 1835) was a London based cartographer active in the early part of the 19th century. Prepared in 1805 by John Cary for issue in his magnificent 1808 New Universal Atlas. All-in-all a fascinating map of American at the first stages of the westward expansion and an important piece for most American post-Revolutionary period map collections. This is also one of the last maps to show the mythical 'Ile Philippeaux' in Lake Superior. Shows the locations of various American Indian tribes, the 'Buffalo Plains,' fishing grounds, hunting territory, and explorer's routes.
Offers considerable commentary on various portages, rapids, waterfalls, and other obstacles to river navigation. Notes the Illinois Company's claims near St. Boon explored it in 1769 & with his family & five other began the first settlement in 1773.' Also indicates the 'Indian Boundary Line' through modern day Ohio and Indiana under the 1795 treaty of General Wayne. A note in Kentucky, for example, referencing the frontiersman Daniel Boon, reads 'Kentucky, this Colony was first discovered by J. Offers copious notations and comments throughout, most of which are extremely interesting.
One of this map's most compelling features is the massive 'Western Territory' encompassing all of modern day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and parts of Minnesota. This wonderful map was produced during a period of rapid westward expansion toward the Mississippi River and attempts address a general fascination with this largely unexplored territory. Extends eastward to include the Western Territory, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ontario, and parts of New York, North Carolina and Maryland. Covers from Lakes Superior south along the Mississippi River as far as Kentucky and Tennessee. Published by John Cary in 1805, this is one of the most interesting and attractive maps of the American Frontier and the Great Lakes to emerge in the first years of the 19th century.
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