Uxs INTRODUCTION. 



Mr. Webber were to be reduced by him to the proper fize ; 

 anifts were next to be found out who would undertake to 



engrave 



pear very obvious, why thefe alterations and additions were introduced contrary to 

 • ;the original drawing. 



Firft then, I have followed clofelythe very excellent and corre£l charts of the 

 Northern Atlantic Ocean, publifhed by MelTrs. de Verdun de la Crenne, de Borda, 

 et Pringre in 1775 and 1776 ; which comprife the coaft of Norway from the Sud 

 Hoek, in the latitude of 62 degrees North, to Trelleburg, Denmark, the coaft of 

 Holland, North coaft of Great Britain, Orkneys, Shetland, Fcrro Ifles, Iceland, 

 coafts of France, Spain, and Portugal, to Cape St. Maria on the coaft of Africa ; 

 including the Azores, Canaries, Cape de Verd, Antilles, and Weft India iflands 

 from Barbadoes to the Eaft end of Cuba ; the North part of Newfoundland and the 

 Labradore coaft, as far as the latitude of 57° degrees North. 



Ireland, and part of the coaft of Scotland, is laid down from Mr. Mackenzie's late 

 furveys ; and the fouth coaft of England from a chart publifhed by Mr. Faden in 

 1780, taken from Mr. I'Abbe Dicquemare, 



The North part of the coaft of Labradore, from the latitude of 57° North, to 

 Button's Iflands in the entrance of Hudfon's Strait, is taken from Monfieur Bellin's 

 chart, as is alfo the North coaft of Norway and Lapland, including the White Sea, 

 Gulf of Bothnia, Baltic Sea, and the Eaft coaft of Greenland. 



The Gulf of Finland, from a large (MS) chart, now engraving for theufe of feme 

 private merchants. 



The Weft India iflands, from the Eaft end of Cuba to the Weft end, including 

 Jamaica and the Bahama iflajids, are from a chavt publifhed in London by Sayer and 

 Bennett, in 1779. 



The South fide of Cuba from Point Gorda to Cape de Cruz, is laid down from 

 Monfieur Bellin, in 1762. 



The coafts of Newfoundland, and the Gulf of St. Laurence, from the furveys 

 made by Captain Cook, and MefTrs. Gilbert and Lane. 



Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Ifland of St. John, River St. Laurence, Canada, and 

 New England to the River Delaware, from J. F. W. des Barres, Efq; in 1777 

 and 1778 ; and charts publifhed in France by order of the King, in 1780, intituled, 

 Neptune Americo-Septrentrional, &c. And from thefe cliarts alfo are taken the 

 coafts of Penfylvania. New Jerfey, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Caro- 

 lina, Georgia, Eaft and Weft Florida, as well as the interior parts of the country to 

 the Eaft- fide of Lake Ontario. 



The other parts of this lake, as likewife Lakes Eria, Huron?, Tvlichigan, and 

 Superior, were copied from Mr. Green's maps of America : The Northern part of 

 this laft mentioned lake is fixed from the aftrononiical cbfervations made by order of 

 the Hudfon's Bay Company, at Mifhippicotton Houie. 



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