30 



VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



1640. 



Nova Virgini^e tabula. Petrus Koerius Caelavit (1640). 

 from Dufosse's Americana, 6® serie, No. 2. 



Tith 



1 640- 1 650. 



Three maps relating to Virginia are of interest in Jansson's 

 Nous Atlas sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. fol. 6 v. Am- 

 stelodami, 1640-1650. I have only been able to examine the 

 Spanish edition, entitled " Nuevo Atlas; o' Teatro de todo el 

 Mundo. 4 V. fol. Amsterdam, 1653," but judge the maps are 

 the same in both editions. These are all found in volume 

 second. The first, called " Virginise partis australis, et Floridae 

 partis orientalis interjacentiumjz regionum nova descriptio," con- 

 tains very little of what is now Virginia. " Chesapeacke Bay " 

 is so called, and the coast is given to " C. Francois." Another, 

 entitled " Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova," gives the coast from 

 Nova Scotia to " C. of Feare." Delaware River is called " Zuydt 

 Rivier." Both these maps have been compiled from English 

 and Dutch sources. A copy of John Smith's map from his first 

 impression is also given, with the omission of Winstons Isles, 

 Brookes Forest, Gunters Harbour, Tauerners roads, Burtons 

 Mount, Democrites tree, Sparkes content, Featherstones Baye, 

 etc. 



1642. 



Nova Virginise tabula. Amstclodami, ex ofHcina Henrici Hondii 

 (1642). Title from Dufosse's Americana, 6^ serie, No. 2. 



1651. 



To a woman, Virginia Farrer,* we are indebted for a map of 

 Virginia, which is a curious combination of fact and fiction, and 

 strikingly shows the ignorance of the mother-country in regard 

 to the geographical position of her new colony in connection 

 with " the sea of China and the Indies," which is placed west of 



* Since writing the above I find the Lenox Library, New York, has good 

 copies of the Farrer maps. 



