MAP of the Western parts of the COLONY of VIRGINIA, as far as the Mississipi

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1754

[Thomas Jefferys]

Scale approximately 1:4,500,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Virginia--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Middle West--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Midwest
• North and Central America
• United States
• Virginia

1 map : copperplate engraving, hand colour in outline ; 24 x 36 cm

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• Relief shown pictorially.
• Publication details from Schwartz.
• Title at lower left.
• Shows longitude west from London at top of map and longitude west from Ferro at bottom of map.
• Published in the 1754 London edition of "The Journal of Major George Washington ... with a new map of the country as far as the Mississippi".
• Titled "A Map of the Western parts of the Colony of Virginia as far as the Mississippi" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Extends from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the east to the Mississippi River in the west. Lake Huron is shown in the north and detail extends southwards to the border with North Carolina.
• In: The Journal of Major George Washington.