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Title: A Plan of Philadelphia (by M. Dury)
Identifier(s): graphics:10288
Description: Miller Map 9.
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia; Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800; Drury, Andrew; Easburn, Benjamin; Middle Atlantic States -- Maps. -- Early works to 1800
Date: 1776

Title: [Middle Atlantic states, showing rivers and mountains and location of sea shells on the tops of the mountains].
Identifier(s): graphics:5727; local: APSdigobj3452
Description: As early as 1741, John Bartram sent some fossil sea shells to Sir Hans Sloan; other shells were sent to his London friend Peter Collinson in 1742. He wrote to Collinson in 1743 or 1744 that he had observed such fossils everywhere, "even on the top of the mountain that separates the waters of Susquehanna and St. Lawrence." (William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall [Philadelphia: 1849], p. 169.) Bartram was used to making rough maps of his travels and he made no pretense of being a competent surveyor. He apologized to Collinson for a map which he said was "Clumsily done, —having neither proper instruments nor convenient time," since he was drawing by the early light of dawn or by candlelight. Franklin wrote his friend Jared Eliot on 16 July 1747 of Bartram's discoveries: The great Apalachian Mountains, which run from York [Hudson] River back of these Colonies to the Bay of Mexico, show in many Places near the highest Parts of them, Strata Sea Shells, in some Places the marks of them are in the solid Rocks. 'Tis certainly the Wreck of a World we live on! We have Specimens of those Sea shell Rocks broken off near the Tops of those Mountains, brought and deposited in our Library [the Library Company of Philadelphia] as Curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I'll send you a Piece. (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin [New Haven: Yale University Press: 1961], vol. 3, p. 169.) The endorsement on the back reads, in Franklin's hand: "Mr. Bartram's Map very curious." 650: [ca.1750s]: At61mvc
Creator: Bartram, John, 1699-1777et al
Subject: Maps; Sea shells; Mountains; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Middle Atlantic States--Maps.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: [1750s]

Title: A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties: by Lewis Evans, 1749
Identifier(s): graphics:5810; local: APSdigobj3524
Description: Norris's copy has now disappeared. It was being used as late as 5 October 1832, for James Mease commented that there was a marginal note by Evans that "all great storms begin at the leeward." Somehow, this note strengthened Mease's theory that the present earth "was made at the creation from the ruins of another" (Minutes). Wheat: 672. Contains comments about the origins of the northeast storms (suggested by B. Franklin?), lightning and electricity, navigation of the Delaware River, and other bays, etc. Endorsement on back, in Benjamin Franklin's hand: "To Dr. John Mitchell from Mr. B. Franklin." The map was at one time in the collection of the Marquess of Bute, a friend of Mitchell's. Joseph Parker Norris gave a copy of this map to the American Philosophical Society on 16 June 1815. Realms of Gold identifier: 751; Full title: A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties: by Lewis Evans. MDCCXLIX. Published by Lewis Evans March 25, 1749 according to act of Parliament. [Philadelphia]: 1749.
Creator: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756et al
Subject: Maps; Middle Atlantic States; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; New York; Delaware; Middle Atlantic States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Date: 1749