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Spring of the River Potowmack arising in the Allegany Moun- 

 tains as ordered by his Majesty in council nth April 1745 unto 

 the Rt. Hon. Thomas Lord Fairfax the Proprietor thereof." 



1737- 

 A Plan of Potomack River, from the mouth of Sherrendo 

 down to Chapawamsick. Surveyed 1737. B. O. Brooke. 

 Manuscript in U. S. Coast Survey Office. 



1738. 



The following notice is in the Virginia Gazette: "Williams- 

 burg, Jan. 5th, 1738. Towards the close of the last session of 

 Assembly, a proposition was presented to the House by Mr. 

 Joshua Fry, Major Robert Brooke, and Major Wm, Mayo, 

 to make an exact survey of the colony, and print and publish a 

 map thereof, in which shall be laid down the bays, navigable 

 rivers, with the soundings, counties, parishes, towns and gen- 

 tlemen's seats, with whatever is useful or remarkable, if the 

 House should see fit to encourage the same. But as said 

 proposition was presented too late in the session, it was ordered 

 that the consideration thereof should be postponed to the next 

 session of Assembly. 



Slaughter, in his Life of Joshua Fry, says : " It is not worth 

 while to say what a precious treasure such a work would have 

 been to after generations. This proposition is not alluded to in 

 Heming, and the presumption is, that nothing came of it. It is 

 chiefly interesting now in connection with the map executed 

 some years after (175 1) by Fry and Jefferson, showing that Fry 

 had such a work in contemplation many years before he made 

 his map. 



1738. 



A new map of Virginia, humbly dedicated to Thomas lord 

 Fairfax, 1738. I3x8i. 



(In Keith (Sir William). The history of the british planta- 

 tions in America. Pt. i. 4° London, 1738.) 



1747- 

 A new and accurate map of Virginia & Maryland. Laid down 

 from surveys and regulated by astron'l Observat'ns. By Eman. 

 Bowen. 



