24 



VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



impression which was struck for " Purchas his Pilgrimes," vol. 4, 

 edition of 1625. 



The two other impressions are the revised ones for Smith's 

 " The Generall Historic of Virginia, New England & The Sum- 

 mers Isles, 1624," and inserted from " 41 Smith " (on the map) 

 at that page of the text. The Purchas pagination numbers of the 

 third and fourth impressions also differ, as they are 1690, 1691, 

 and contain all places omitted from the original map. One of 

 these two impressions has also no engraver mentioned, and the 

 date 1606 directly under " Discouered and Described," and not 

 under Smith as in the others. 



It is very difificult to find in the various editions of " The 

 Generall Historic " the correct map belonging to each edition, 

 and even in Purchas these maps are often found inserted. All 

 the maps, however, were copied from the Purchas impres- 

 sion, as seen by the pagination numbers of that book, 1690 and 

 1691, 1692 and 1693, at the top. 



In explanation of the small black crosses on the map, Smith 

 says in his text: 



" In which mappe observe this, that as far as you see the 

 little Crosses on rivers, mountains, or other places, have been 

 discouered the rest was had by information of the Sauages, and 

 are set downe according to their instructions." 



The other map — " Ould Virginia " — published in " The Gen- 

 erall Historic," is here referred to only on account of its title^^^ 

 as it contains nothing of what is now Virginia. 



Chart of Virginia, 1608. 



A facsimile in Alex. Brown's " The Genesis of the Unitec 

 States," vol. i, p. 184. The author gives an extensive noticf 

 to this map, from which I quote the following: "This chart 

 must have been sent to England by Capt. Francis Nelson, whc 

 left Virginia, June 2, 1608. It is not drawn on an exact scale; 

 it seems to have been drawn on the basis of about five milesj 

 or say one and a half leagues to an inch. It illustrates Captair 

 John Smith's True Relations, and was sent from Virginia with it.] 

 The ' Relation ' was published in August, 1608; but I have nevei 

 seen an engraving of this chart." 



