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A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye Hills, 1651
About this map
Map by John Farrer.
- Date created
- 1651
- Location
- Virginia
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by University of Virginia
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- Search LEARN NC for John Farrer, Sea of Verrazano, and Virginia.
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John Farrer’s 1651 map of Virginia shows the Pacific Ocean just beyond the Appalachian mountains. (Note that west is at the top of this map.) Farrer’s conception of the continent may have been influenced by the idea that a “Sea of Verrazano” split North America in two, or by the idea that California was an island. Both were common misconceptions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cartography.
