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[North central states portion of Carte de l'Amerique septentrionale depuis l'embouchure de la riviere St. Laurens jusques au Sein Mexique]
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- French
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- [Providence, R.I.] : John Carter Brown Library, [1926]
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- 1 map : photocopy ; 45 x 36 cm
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- ocn864716374
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Scale not given
- Incomplete copy; covers Wisconsin and Michigan region, including Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, part of Lake Huron, and the Wisconsin and Illinois Rivers.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Original attributed to Hugues Randin, an officer of engineers stationed in Canada from 1672 until his death in 1681. Tentatively dated between 1674-1678, it was based on one of Louis Joliet's maps of North America (now lost). The Randin manuscript (also lost) was formerly held by the Service Hydrogaphique library (Paris).
- Photocopy of a contemporary variant held by John Carter Brown Library.
- Jean Delanglez, "The Jolliet lost map of the Mississippi" in Mid-America v. 17 no. 2 (April 1946) p. 67-144.
- Reproduced in Sara Jones Tucker's Indian villages of the Illinois country (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Museum, 1942) p. 3 and pl. VI.