Carte maritime dv Micissipy. [ca. 1735]

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Carte maritime dv Micissipy. [ca. 1735]

Details coasts and major rivers in region roughly bounded by Natchez (Miss.), Selma (Ala.), Atchafalaya Bay (La.), and Pensacola Bay (Fla.). Forms part of an anonymous ms. memoire detailing provincial Louisiana as of ca. 1735: Relation de la Louisianne (Ayer MS 530). See John R. Swanton, Source material for the social and ceremonial life of the Choctaw Indians in Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 103 (Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1931) p. 243.

1 ms. map ; 166 x 166 mm.

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