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| Title: | Course of the river Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres; taken on an expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the year 1765. By Lieut. Ross of the 34th regiment: Improved from the surveys of that river made by the French. |
| Author: | Ross, John |
| Scale: | ca. 1 inch to 14 miles |
| Situation Date: | 1765 |
| Publication Date: | 1772. |
| Type: | Original |
| Features: | Drainage, river islands-some named, lakes, bluffs, relief-pictorially and by hachures, portages, existing and abandoned Indian settlements, forts, villages, quarries. |
| Comments: | Features Note: Shows historic points of interest.Includes descriptive notes and "Depths of the Mississippi." |
| Coverage: | Illinois to Gulf of Mexico (western two-thirds of Mississippi) |
| Repository: | David Rumsey Map Collection | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Mississippi Department of Archives and History | Mississippi River Commission | Boston Public Library,Norman B. Leventhal Map Center |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, |
| Size (inches): | 44 X 13.3 |
| Color: | Y |
| Link: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4042m.ar078000 |
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