44 EAKLY GAZETTEER AND MAP LITERATURE 



A. D. 1710; (2). Map of North America, by William Delisle, 

 Amsterdam, A. D. 1739; (3). Jeifery's Map of the north part of 

 North America, A. D. 1762; (4). Peter Bell's Map of the British 

 Dominions in North America according to the Treaty of 1763, A.D. 

 1772; (5). D'Anville's Map of North America, A. D. 1775; (6). 

 Governor Pownall's Map of North America, A. D. 1776; (7). 

 Kitchen's Map of North America, shewing the boundaries of Canada 

 after the Treaty of 1783, A.D. 1794; (8). Map of North America, 

 shewing the territories claimed by France in 1756, with the French 

 forts marked; (9). Map of the boundary line between the Northern 

 Colonies and the Indians, established by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 

 1768; (10). Map of the French Settlements in Illinois, by Thomas 

 Hutchins, Captain, 60th Regiment. 



2. Mr. Chas. Lindsey's "Investigationof the Unsettled Boundaries 

 of Ontario, presented to Parliament in 1873," supplies us with copies 

 of (1) Carte des nouvelles decouvertes dans I'Ouest du Canada dressee 

 sur les memoires de M. de la Velandrie et donnee au Dep6t de la 

 Marine, par M. de la Galissoni^re, 1749. (2) Carte du Canada oti 

 de la Nouvelle France, &c., par Guillaume Delisle, 1703. (3) A new 

 Map of North America, by H. Moll, 1708. 



The year 1875 will mai"k an era in the Cartography of Canada, as 

 it was in that year that our map literature culminated in two com- 

 plete Canadian Atlases, each containing maps in minute detail of all 

 the Pi-ovinces of the Dominion. 



(1.) The Atlas compiled and edited by Mr. H. F. Walling, 

 executed chiefly in lithography by able artists at Montreal and 

 Toronto, and published by Mr. G. N. Tackabury. There are con- 

 tained within this Atlas one hundred and thirty maps, or plans, 

 including maps of Europe, and the United States of North America. 

 The shape of the book is the large square folio which is customary 

 with Atlases on a considerable scale. The delineation, shading, and 

 lettering of the several plates are perspicuous, and generally agreeable ' 

 to the eye ; but here and there the colouring would be more pleasing, 

 had it been more delicate. In some of the plates the fine division 

 lines between the 200 acre lots have been somewhat indistinctly 

 printed. The maps of the Parry Sound and Muskoka Districts are 

 fine specimens of workmanship, the labyrinthine intricacies of the 

 coast-lines, and the innumerable minute islands being particularly 

 well represented. The map of British Columbia shews, in a striking 



