| Carl Grundy-Warr - 1994 - 238 pagina’s
...1699 and 1878. These frontiers became better mapped in the eighteenth century. Reviewing Lewis Evans's Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, Dr Johnson wrote in 1756 that 'the last war between the Russians and the Turks [1736-9] made geographers... | |
| Jeremy Black - 2000 - 200 pagina’s
...concern and power. War, furthermore, encouraged public interest in mapping. Reviewing Lewis Evans' Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, in 1756, Dr Johnson wrote that 'the last war between the Russians and the Turks [1736-9] made geographers... | |
| Timothy J. Shannon - 2002 - 292 pagina’s
...Lewis Evans, Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical, and Mechanical Essays. The First, Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America (Philadelphia, 1755), reproduced in Gipson, Lewis Evans, 176. Two travel narratives from the mid-eighteenth... | |
| Peter C. Mancall, James Hart Merrell - 2000 - 612 pagina’s
...(Ithaca, 1991). 15. An excellent brief description of the Mohawk Valley trade may be found in Lewis Evans, An Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America. . . (Philadelphia, 1755), 20, reprinted in Lawrence Henry Gipson, Lewis Evans (Philadelphia, 1939),... | |
| Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 pagina’s
...Evans (1700-1756), Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical, and Mechanical Essays, the First Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, second edition. First edition printed in Philadelphia and sold in England by Dodsley & Co. 20 Reviewed... | |
| Thomas Hallock - 2003 - 316 pagina’s
...which was i.fcd to cxprels tl1e fame Sound. Figure 1.3. Page from Lewis Evans and Benjamin Franklin's Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America (1755). Courtesy Library Company of Philadelphia. (south of the Great Lakes to present-day Tennessee).... | |
| Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne - 2004 - 284 pagina’s
...for Lewis Evans's Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. The First Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle...America and of the Country of the Confederate Indians . . . (1755). This volume also contains all of Evans's maps of the middle colonies in fold-outs. For... | |
| Warren R. Hofstra - 2004 - 444 pagina’s
...Walker." See Evans, Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. The First, Containing an Analysis Of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America . . . , as quoted in Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. McKee, Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries... | |
| Edwin Wolf, Kevin J. Hayes - 2006 - 1012 pagina’s
...LEWIS, 1700?-1756. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays. The first, containing an analysis of a general map of the middle...of the several rivers and lakes contained therein. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1755. 4to. description and travel; Iroquois Indians; Ohio River... | |
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