Mr. Webber were to be reduced by him to the proper fize ;
artifts were next to be found out who would undertake to
engrave
pear very obvious, why thefe alterations and additions were introduced contrary to"
the original drawing.
Firft then, I have followed clofely the very excellent and correft charts o f the
Northern Atlantic Ocean, publiihed by Meflïs. dé. Verdun de la Crenne, de Borda,
et Pringré in 1775 and 1776 ; which, comprife the coaft of Norway from the Sud
Hoek, in the latitude o f 62 degrees North, to Trellëburg, Denmark, the coaft of
Holland, North coaft of Great Britain, Orkneys, Shetland, Ferro Iftes, Iceland,
coafts of France, Spain, and.Portugal, to Cape St. Maria on the coaft o f Africa.;
including the .Azores, Canaries, Cape de Verd, Antilles, and Weft India ifl&ids
from Barbadoes to the Eaft end o f Cuba • the North part of Newfoundland and the»
Labradore coaft, as far as the latitude of 570 degrees North.
Ireland, and part o f the coaft o f Scotland, is laid down-from Mr.. Mackenzie’s late
furveys ; and the fouth coaft o f England from a chart publiihed by Mr. Faden in
1780, taken from Mr. l’Abbé Dicquemare,
T h e North part of the coaft of Labradore, from the latitude of 57° North, to
Button’s Iflands in the entrance of Hudfon’s Strait, is taken from Monfieur Beilin’s
chart, as is alfo the North coaft o f Norway and Lapland, including the White Sea,
G u lf o f Bothnia, Baltic Sea, and the Eaft coaft’ of Greenland.
T h e G u lf of Finland, from a large (M S ) chart, now engraving fçr theufe o f fome
private merchants.
T h e Weft India iflands, from the Eaft end o f Cuba to the Weft end, including
Jamaica and the Bahama iflands, are from a chart publiihed imLondoa by Sayer .and
Bennett, in 1779.
T h e South fide o f Cuba from Point Gorda to Cape de Cruz, is laid down from
Moniieur Beilin, in. 1762.
T h e coafts of Newfoundland, and the G u lf of St. Laurence, from the furveys.
made by Captain Cook, and Meflrs. Gilbert and Lane.
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Ifland of St* John, River St. Laurence, Canada, and
New England to the River Delaware; f r om j. F. W . des Barres, Efq; in 1777'
and 1778 ; and charts publiihed in France by order of the King, in 1780, intituled
Neptune Americo-Septrentrional, &c. And from thefe r charts alfo are taken the
coafts of Penfylvania, New Jerfey, Maryland,. Virginia, North and-South Carolina,
Georgia, Eaft and Weft Florida,, as well as the interior parts o f the country to
the Eaft fide of Lake .Ontario,
T h e other parts of this lake, as likewife Lakes Eria, Hurons, Michigan, and
Superior, were copied from Mr. Green’s maps of Amferica : The Northern part o f
this laft mentioned lake is fixed from the aftronomical obfervations made by order of
the Hudfon’s Bay Company, at Miihippicotton Houfe.
The
engrave them ; the prior engagements of thofe artifts were
to be fulfilled before they could begin; the labour and fkill
to
The whole o f Hudfon’s Bay I took from a chart, compiled by Mr. Marley, from
all the moft authentic maps he could procure o f thofe parts with which I was favoured
by Samuel Wegg, Efq; F . R. S. and Governor of that Company, who alfo politely
furnilhed me with Mr. Hearnte’s Journals, and-the map o f his route to the
Coppermine River, which is faithfully inferted on the chart, together with the fur-
vey of Chefterfield Inlet made by Captain Chriftopher and Mr. Mofes Norton, in
1762; and the difcoveries, from York Fort to Cumberland, and Hudfon Houfes
(this laft is the moft Weftern fettlement belonging to the Company), extending to
Lake Winipeg, from .the drafts o f Mr. Philip Tumor, made in 1778 and 1779, cor-
refled by aftronomreal obfervations. And from this lake, the difpofition of the other
lakes to the Southward of it, and which communicate with it, is formed, and laid
down from a map conftruifted by Mr. Spurrel, in the Company’s, fervice. The
Albany and Moofe rivers to Gloucefter Houfe, and to Lake Abbitibbe and Superior,
are alfo drawn from a map o f Mr. Tumor’s, adjufted by obfervations for the Ion-
gitudes.
The Weft coaft o f Greenland, as chiefly laid down from the obfervations made by
Lieut. R. Pickerfgill in the Lion brig in 1776, which determine the line o f the
coaft only, as the immenfe quantities of ice choak up every bay and inlet on this
coaft, which formerly were, in the fummer feafon, quite free and open.
From the mouth of the Mifiifippi River, including its fource, and the other rivers
branching from i t ; all the coaft of N ew Leon to Cape Rozo, and the Weftern coaft
o f America, from Cape Corrienties to the Great Bay o f Tecoantepec, is taken from
Monfieur D ’Anville.
The Gulf o f California I have laid down from a German publication in 1773
put into my.hands by.Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. ; and the Weftern fide of it
.is brought together from a Spanilh M&. chart with which A. Dalrymple, E fq; F . R. S.
obliged me.
T he coaft of Brazil from Sera to Cape Frio, is copied from a fmall chart of that
part by Mr. Dalrymple. _
For the Southern part of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Point Natal I
have taken the authority of the chart of Major J. Rennels, F. R. S. fhewin/the extent
of the bank of.LagulI.us,
F ° r the exiftence of the finall Mauds, ftisals, and banks to.the Eaftward of Mai
h a t0gCther with the Archipelago of the Maldlve and Laccidlve. Iflands; for
t e coa s of Mallacca, part of Cambodia, and the Ifland Sumatra, I have ufed the
afeft authority < Monfieur D ’Apres de Mannevlllette’s publications in the '
Neptune Oriental. .
. C^ 2<lS G “Z?rat’ Malabar>' Coromandel, -and the oppofite fttorc, contain-
Y o l I * ° f Be” ga1’ 3nd the Iiland o fC <iylon, and exhibiting the Headi o f
° L' ' 1 the