Author: Vina Hutchinson Farmer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-05

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780365778240

Excerpt from The Palace, Vol. 7: Tyron Palace Historic Sites and Gardens; Summer 2007 Beginning in the 17105 and for the next several decades, cartographers borrowed from John Lawson's map when depicting North Carolina. Until about mid-18th century, requests from the Board of Trade and Plantations in London for general maps of the province Often went unheeded. But as the frontier expanded west and the need for information on trade routes, provincial boundary lines and the location of various Indian lands became important, more topographical maps appeared. The quality of these maps varied in accuracy. Along the coast, where information on harbors and water soundings was needed for navigation and trade, there had been a steady improvement in the level of precision. But topographical features tended to become less accurate as the territory shown extended beyond the areas of settlement. A Compleat Map of North - Carolina from an actual Survey. By Capt Collet, Governor of Fort johnston (1770) is one important example. Its production concerns the interconnected lives of surveyor William Churton, Captain John Abraham Collet and Royal Governor William Tryon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.