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Bartholomew Release Date: July 31, 2018 [EBook #57610] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERARY & HISTORICAL ATLAS *** Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS REFERENCE A LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ATLAS OF NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA THE PUBLISHERS OF EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING THIRTEEN HEADINGS: TRAVEL SCIENCE * FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY * CLASSICAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS * ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE ROMANCE Logo IN FOUR STYLES OF BINDING: CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP; LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP; LIBRARY BINDING IN CLOTH, & QUARTER PIGSKIN London: J. M. DENT & SONS, Ltd. New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO. TO THE WISE MAN ALL THE WORLD'S A SOIL BEN JONSON A LITERARY & HISTORICAL ATLAS OF AMERICA J G. BARTHOLOMEW LL.D LONDON: PUBLISHED by J·M·DENT·&·SONS·LTD AND IN NEW YORK BY E·P·DUTTON & CO INTRODUCTION When General Hamilton spoke in the Federalist over a century ago of "an empire, in many respects the most interesting in the world," meaning the United States of America, he did not, he could not, foresee the vast growth of his country and its northern and southern neighbours which this book portrays. The volume is the third in a series of small atlases, meant to cover in turn the whole globe, and to do it in a way to knit up geographical and historical knowledge with the facts of commerce and the literary record of each land or region. One chief purpose of these maps is to trace clearly the development of the United States, beginning with "the most remarquable parts" of the New England of the Pilgrim Fathers, described by Captain John Smith in 1614, and not forgetting the territories of the old American-Indian nations. Some inkling too is given in facsimile of the early charts, views, and maps by the explorers and cartographers who made a survey of the first settlements. For example, we have an old map of Guiana invaluable as a Sir Walter Raleigh record, giving the mouths of the Oronoke, or Orinoco, where his men tugged against the stream, and stretching southward to the Amazon itself, and we get from the map of Peru at the period of the Conquest a clear idea of the country in the time of Pizarro. As with the great rivers, so with the great American cities. You can compare "old New York," as represented in one page, with the new New York and its environs which are a world's wonder to-day. Then again you can take the chart of the Early Highways that ran westward into the wilderness and estimate how the power of the engineer has, since the railway came, caught the States in an iron network and rearranged the Americas. Battlefields and sieges, by which the right of the new country to its national life and individuality was "wrenched," as Tennyson said in his address to the old country,[1] are not forgotten. Note among the less familiar documents that we are able to include, the rare map of the territory in Virginia and North Carolina traversed by John Lederer in his three marches. Lederer was sent out by Governor Berkeley in 1669-70, and journeyed west as far as the top of the Apalatœan mountains. It seems doubtful how far he went in South Carolina. He did not penetrate far enough, according to Professor W. J. Rivers, to meet "the new-comers who were about founding the Commonwealth of Locke." As for the local associations that have become familiar in American literature, you have a chart of the Concord neighbourhood showing Walden Pond, Forest Lake, Lexington, and Punkatasset Hill, associated with the name and fame of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and H. D. Thoreau. Fenimore Cooper recalls the old Indian Territory as it was in the wild prime of the Red Men; and you travel from the land of "Hiawatha" in Longfellow's poem southwards to the Mexico and Peru of Prescott, and then pause over something more amazing than any record in imaginative verse or prose—the plain statistics figured in the map of South America, and the emergence of Buenos Ayres with its million and a quarter inhabitants, Rio de Janeiro with its 860,000, San Paulo with 350,000, and Santiago with 330,000. Here are the elements of an immense new Latin civilisation which is going to count, and count enormously, just as China and its millions are bound to count enormously in the twentieth century. We might have spoken at large of Canada and its huge dominion; of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, New "Scotia," and the chain of the Great Lakes in the North. But an Atlas speaks for itself with the accent of a world-bearer if one treats its pages as they ought to be treated, with a sense of the great perspective of history and of men and nations advancing along it to their fulfilment in the world. The Old World and the New have lately been drawn closer by the mysterious nerves that underrun the Atlantic and the understanding of a true world polity; and it is hoped that this volume will do something to foster that amity between states and nations. We have again to acknowledge very gratefully the indispensable help given to our enterprise by Dr. Bartholomew with his unfailing knowledge and skill. Also to thank Miss Edwardes for her working gazetteer which makes reference easy, and Mr. G. C. Brooke of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum for his notes on the coinage, and for his arrangements of the specimens which serve so vividly to illustrate the historical side of the atlas. [vii] [viii] [ix] [xi] CONTENTS COLOURED MAPS PAGE Atlantic Ocean, Toscanelli, 1474 1 Discoveries of Columbus 2 Discoveries of the Norsemen 3 America, 1492-1522 3 America, 1522-1700 4, 5 North American Colonies, 1643 6 North America, 1740 7 North American Colonies, 1755-1763 8, 9 North American Colonies, 1783 10, 11 Canada, 1791 12, 13 United States, 1801 14 United States, 1845 15 United States—Civil War, 1861-65 16, 17 Cortes in Mexico, 1519 18 Mexico and West Indies, 1650 19 Mexico and West Indies, 1763 20 Mexico and West Indies, 1855 21 South America—Political Formation 22, 23 The World on Mercator's Projection, showing Routes to America 24, 25 America—Commercial Routes on Mercator's Projection 26, 27 America—January Temperature 28 America—July Temperature 29 America—Rainfall and Winds, January 30 America—Rainfall and Winds, July 31 Sketch Chart of the North Atlantic on Mercator's Projection 32, 33 Arctic Regions 34 Antarctic Regions 35 North America—Orographical 36 North America—Vegetation 37 North America—Political 38 North America—Population 39 Dominion of Canada 40, 41 Canada—Railways and Economic 42, 43 Newfoundland and Gulf of St. Lawrence 44 New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, etc. 45 Quebec 46, 47 Ontario 48, 49 Manitoba and Part of Saskatchewan 50, 51 British Columbia, etc. 52, 53 United States—Political Acquisitions 54, 55 United States—Railways and Economic 56, 57 New York, Pennsylvania, and New England States 58, 59 New York and Environs 60, 61 Chicago 62 St. Louis 62 Boston 63 Philadelphia 63 [xii] Atlantic States 64, 65 Central States 66, 67 Southern States 68, 69 Western States 70, 71 The Yosemite Valley 71 California, etc. 72 Vancouver 73 San Francisco 73 Alaska 74 Philippine Islands 75 Mexico 76, 77 West Indies and Central America 78, 79 Cuba, Jamaica, etc. 80 Panama Canal 81 South America—Orographical 82 South America—Vegetation 83 South America—Political 84 South America—Population 85 South America—Railways and Economic 86, 87 Brazil and Guiana 88, 89 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru 90, 91 Chile, Argentina, etc. 92, 93 Rio de Janeiro 94 Monte Video 95 Buenos Ayres 95 Patagonia 96 A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE COINAGE OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, by G. 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Brooke, B.A., Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum 97 [xiii] LINE MAPS MAPS AND PLANS OF NOTABLE BATTLES AND DISTRICTS CONNECTED WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS Battle of Bunker Hill, 17th June, 1775 117 Siege of Charleston, 1776 118 Battle of Long Island, 1776 118 Battle of Brandywine, 1777 119 Battle of Freemans Farm 119 Plan of West Point, showing Forts and Batteries, 1780 120 Siege of Yorktown 120 Maps showing Principal Battles of the War of Independence 121 A Plan of the Operations at the taking of Quebec and the Battle fought near that City, September 13th, 1759 122 Port Royal, 1613 123 A Map of New England in 1631, as observed and described by Captain John Smith 124 A Map of the Whole Territory traversed by John Lederer in his Three Marches, 1672 125 A Map of the American Indian Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, West and East Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia, etc., 1775 126 New Amsterdam about 1650 127 New York about 1730 128 Plan of New York in 1746 129 Early Highways, showing expansion westwards 130 The Boston District 130 The Concord Neighbourhood—Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, etc. 131 Virginia in American Fiction 131 The El Dorado of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1595 132 Map of Peru at the Period of the Conquest 133 Growth of Trade of the United States 134 Growth of Population of the United States 134 Immigration—United States, Canada, Argentine, Brazil 135 A Gazetteer of Towns and Places in America having a Literary or Historic Interest 137 Index 169 ATLANTIC OCEAN, TOSCANELLI, 1474 The Correct outline of North America is shown in light blue tint John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image DISCOVERIES OF COLUMBUS View larger image [xiv] [1] [2] [3] AMERICA, 1492-1522 DISCOVERIES OF THE NORSEMEN John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image AMERICA 1522 to 1700 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES 1643 View larger image NORTH AMERICA 1740 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES 1755 TO 1763 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr View larger image NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES 1783 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image [4] [6] [7] [8] [10] [12] CANADA 1791 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image UNITED STATES 1801 View larger image UNITED STATES 1845 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR 1861-65 View larger image CORTES IN MEXICO 1519 View larger image MEXICO & WEST INDIES 1650 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image MEXICO & WEST INDIES 1763 View larger image [14] [15] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] MEXICO & WEST INDIES 1855 John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image SOUTH AMERICA POLITICAL FORMATION John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image THE WORLD ON MERCATORS PROJECTION. SHOWING ROUTES TO AMERICA John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image AMERICA COMMERCIAL ROUTES ON MERCATORS PROJECTION. John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image AMERICA JANUARY TEMPERATURE View larger image AMERICA JULY TEMPERATURE John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image [22] [24] [26] [28] [29] [30] AMERICA RAINFALL & WINDS JANUARY View larger image AMERICA RAINFALL & WINDS JULY John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image SKETCH CHART OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC ON MERCATORS PROJECTION John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image ARCTIC REGIONS View larger image ANTARCTIC REGIONS John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image NORTH AMERICA OROGRAPHICAL View larger image NORTH AMERICA VEGETATION John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image [31] [32] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] NORTH AMERICA POLITICAL View larger image NORTH AMERICA POPULATION John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image DOMINION OF CANADA John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image CANADA RAILWAYS & ECONOMIC John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image NEWFOUNDLAND & GULF OF ST LAWRENCE View larger image NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, &c. John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image QUEBEC John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image [39] [40] [42] [44] [45] [46] [48] ONTARIO John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image MANITOBA AND PART OF SASKATCHEWAN John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image BRITISH COLUMBIA &c. John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image UNITED STATES POLITICAL ACQUISITIONS John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image UNITED STATES RAILWAYS & ECONOMIC John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW ENGLAND STATES John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image NEW YORK & ENVIRONS John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. View larger image [50] [52] [54] [56] [58] [60] [62]
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