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Title: A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina : comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. the climate, soil and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral ; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part laid down in the annexed map / published by Thomas Hutchins, captain in the 60th regiment of foot ; with a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper ; and an appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois River, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.

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Alternate titles

  • A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina
  • comprehending the river Ohio, and all the rivers, which fall into it
  • part of the river Mississippi, the whole of the Illinois River,...

Dates

  • Coverage: 1778
  • Coverage: 1778 to 1778

Publishers

  • London

Summary

Brown, Lloyd Arnold. Early maps of the Ohio Valley. no. 51.;LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, no. 789.; Philadelphia and London.;Relief shown pictorially and by hachures.;Shows military bounty lands.;1 map, hand colored;91 x 109 cm.;ca. 1:1,270,000;Thos. Hutchins, 1778.

Subjects

  • Illinois River
  • Indians of North America--Statistics
  • Maps
  • Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel
  • Ohio River Valley--Description and travel--Before 1800
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • FixedBBoxes
  • bboxSprintJune2023
  • Mississippi River Valley
  • Ohio River Valley

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-98.11,-76.4,43.67,34.84)

Provider

University of Illinois

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • The University of Illinois Map Library requests the following acknowledgement be included when using this Historical Map: Map provided courtesy of the Map Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.; No Copyright - United States; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Citation

Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789. A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina : comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. the climate, soil and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral ; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part laid down in the annexed map / published by Thomas Hutchins, captain in the 60th regiment of foot ; with a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper ; and an appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois River, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.. London. https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/a197b2a0-994e-0134-2096-0050569601ca-5

Format

JPEG2000

Languages

  • eng