Author Description

Excerpt from Taches d'Encre, 1912: Chroniques New-Yorkaises, Articles de Journaux J'ai raccolé, tout dernièrement, chez un fripier de marchandises littéraires, une carte géographique, que je considère être une relique également importante. Cette carte, qui mesure 52x20 pouces, est en deux parties, destinées à être rejointes par le monteur, mais qui ne l'ont jamais été. Elle porte dans un coin l'étiquette suivante: The provinces of New York and New Jersey, with part of Pensilvania and the govern ments of Trois Rivieres and Montreal. A chorograph ical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac and Les Trois Ricieres, exhibiting all the grants made by the French Governors on Lake Cham plain, and between that Lake and Montreal, drawn by capt. Holland, engraved by thomas jefferys, geographer to His Majesty, according to an observation taken at New York by mr. Burnet in 1723. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.