Raynor HCA 2013-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/10/2013
A complete and authentic issue of The Gentlman’s Magazine, March 1790, 96pp., disbound, near fine. From the interior, a 9” x 8-1/4”fold out map, “A Map Shewing the Communication of the Lakes and the Rivers between Lake Superior and Slave Lake in North America” with a detail letter describing the map. In part, “...The following are observations that I took from the map. It begins at the upper end of Lake Superior, in lat. 46* 47* North, where there is a Portage (or carrying-place) of near nine miles, before you enter the waters communicating to the North-west. The Misissippi heads are in the same latitude with the head of Lake Superior, about 10 degrees of longitude to the Westward of it: and from the portage there is a water-commuuication to that river, and down it, which is only intercepted by the Falls of St. Anthony. The traders go on this course Westward, leaving the Misissippi to the Eastward 1000 miles, and may go South-west down the Misissippi to its mouth. The furs are much inferior to those on the North-west trading posts. From the end of the portage at the Mead of Lake Superior, all the lakes and waters, as high up as lat. 58* and long. 114°, set first to the North-west and North, and then take'a South-eastward and South course, and empty into York River (Hudson's Bay). These lakes and rivers are almost innumerable, and some of them very large ...The Hudson's Bay Company have posts several hundred miles West from them, but none to the Northward. ... and emty into, a great lake, called the Slave Like, ... and this lake is the last water before you come to the great Northern Ocean. ...
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