Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba, Espagnole, Jamaique, &c.

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IdentifierMaps_90aDate1702DescriptionAlso titled Teatre de la Guerre en Amerique tell qu'elle est a present possedee par les Espagnols, Anglois, Francois, et Hollandois, &c.

Mortier based this work on La Salle's erroneous reports of the Gulf Coast geography. The map shows the mouth of the Mississippi, discovered in 1682, but incorrectly places it on the Texas coast. To the east, at its traditional location near the center of the coast, is the Bahia del Espiritu Santo. Between the mouth of the Mississippi and the Rio Grande are two coastal place names: "Riv. aux vaches" and a point on the Gulf, "Caye de St. Louis," into which the former flowss. J.B.L. Franquelin had introduced La Salle's geography on the Carte del la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. de la Salle, 1684. Franquelin's map remained the standard reference for Gulf Coast geography until the appearance of the maps of Guillaume de L'Isle (from 1700). Coronelli (1688), Hennepin (1697), and others, including Pierre Mortier, copied the misinformation from Franquelin's map to this general map of the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies.

Koeman mentions Mortier's map only in connection with its inclusion in volume two of the Atlas nouveau, published in 1702. The map may have appeared some years earlier for sale as a separate sheet (see Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, 3:0, for a reference to such a precedent in the maps of Mortier).Language NoteFrenchSubjectCaribbean Area--MapsCuba--MapsHispaniola--MapsJamaica--MapsMexico, Gulf of--MapsCopyright StatementNo Copyright – Non-Commercial Use OnlySize60x100 centimeters.CartographerPierre Mortier

CollectionMary Moody Northen Maritime History Collection

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Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba, Espagnole, Jamaique, &c.