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[W. Penna.] Gent's & London Mag., Map of the Country between Wills Creek and Fort du Quesne. Dublin, Dec., 1758. 7¼ x 4½. BW. Light age-toning, one wormhole in border, else VG. With accompanying text. SOLD
Follows the line of march for Braddock's Expedition from Fort Cumberland to the site of the ambush, with each of 19 encampments numbered. Several Indian villages and trading posts run by Gist, Stewart and Frazier are named.
The accompanying article, Some Account of the first Establishment and Importance of Fort Du Quesne, refers to its strategic significance and to "Major Washington's" attempt to build a fort there in 1755. Includes a key to the numbered places on the map. The editor asks the correspondent who sent the map to indicate where Loyal Hanning should be placed on it. Scale is 20 miles to the inch. With a compass rose and decorative cartouche. The same month a similar map appeared in the Grand Magazine of Magazines. Jolly GAL-67.
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