VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



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Henry's Map of Virginia in 1770. 



The following account of this map shows that at the present 

 time it would be of considerable interest, as the geography of 

 that State has never been more widely studied. It would enable 

 us to institute a curious comparison between Virginia before the 

 Revolution and Virginia as the Rebellion found and as it will 

 leave her. 



The title-piece is characterictic of Virginia in her earlier days. 

 It represents an arch, surmounted with a capstone, upon which 

 is seated an Indian maiden holding in the right hand a likeness 

 of George III., while her left encircles a cornucopia, from which 

 Indian corn, tobacco leaves and fruit protrude, while the bow 

 and arrows lie across the picture. The ground upon which the 

 arch is based represents a recumbent negro, basket of fruit, 

 Indian corn, tobacco leaves, young negro bearing fruits, hogs- 

 heads of tobacco; a ship from which the little negro seems just 

 to have landed. The title-piece, really a beautiful piece of en- 

 graving, contains the following words: 



* A new and accurate map of Virginia, wherein most of the 

 counties are laid down from actual surveys, with a concise 

 account of the number of inhabitants, the trade, sale, and pro- 

 duce of the Provinces, by John Henry.' ' Engraved by Thomas 

 Jefferys, Geographer to the King.' ' London, February, 1770: 

 Published according to act of Parliament for the author, by 

 Thos. Jefiferys, at the corner of St. Martin's Lane, in the Strand.' 



It is a map exclusively of Eastern Virginia. That portion of 

 the State west of the AUeghanies is marked as a wilderness, with 

 the Kanawha spelt " Konhaway," which is traced from its rise 

 in North Carolina to the Ohio with very great accuracy; but 

 the country is represented as a wilderness for which " there is 

 a treaty now on foot between the colony and the Six Nations, 

 by which it is expected that all this tract of country, containing 

 9,000,000 or 10,000,000 of acres, lying between the Ohio River 

 and the Konhaway will be added to Great Britain. It is here 

 laid down from the best information that could be obtained." 



All the rivers of Eastern Virginia are beautifully and accu- 

 rately traced, from their remote risings in the mountains through 

 all their turnings and windings to the bay. 



