56 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 
OLD MAPS. 
PROF. G. C. BROADHEAD. 
The Study of the olden maps of our country is instructive. From them we 
see at a glance the wonderful progress of settlement and the important changes 
that have taken place in boundaries and political divisions. They are an epitome 
of history. 
Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, 1801, contains a county map of the State, 
showing that the portion of the State east of the Blue Ridge does not materially 
differ from its present divisions, but west of the Kanahawa (the spelling of Mr. 
Jefferson) River, the only counties then organized were Wythe, Washington, and 
Russell; all in the extreme southwest. While north of the K. River and west 
of the Alleghany Mountains are only six counties, viz. : Kanahawa, Greenbrier, 
Randolph, Monongahela, Ohio, and Harrison. Northwestward across the Ohio 
River we find Northwest Territory where now is the populous State of Ohio. 
In Geology of North America, by Wm. Maclure, Phila., 18 17, there is a 
map of the United States, colored according to the then accepted geological 
nomenclature as Primitive, Transition, Secondary, Alluvium and Old Red Sand- 
stone. This was the first Geological map published of the United States. Besides 
the olden states we find upon it Alabama Territory, Illinois Territory, and North- 
west Territory, the latter having been removed farther west than on Mr. Jefferson's 
map; extending north from Illinois to British America, and lying between Lake 
Michigan and the Mississippi River. The State of . Louisiana had its present 
bounds, and Missouri Territory extended from Louisiana northwardly to British 
America, and from the Mississippi River indefinitely west. Kansas River is 
spelled Kans., and Arkansas is spelled Arkansaw, as pronounced. A Choctaw 
village we find located on the south side of the Arkansas River, not far from the 
present location of Little Rock. A Delaware village we find on White River, 
just below the junction of Black River (in Arkansas). An Osage village on the 
south side of the Missouri River. A Kans (Kansas) village near where Wyandotte, 
Kansas, now stands. A Sac village at the mouth of Des Moines, and another 
just below the mouth of Rock River. On this map we also fiijd Chicago placed 
directly at the north boundary of Indiana, and the northwest corner of that State 
is considerably to the. westward. 
In the Gazetter of Illinois and Missouri, by L. C. Beck, Albanj^ N. Y., 
1823, we find seventeen counties south of the Missouri River and ten north, and 
three of the latter, Ralls, Chariton and Ray occupy the northern portion of the 
