Historic Map : Cassini Map of Florida, Louisiana, Cuba, and Central America , 1798, Vintage Wall Art United States Entire colonial era A detailed railroad map of the western United States that highlights the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. 5249911 Sheet one of a six

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The map covers from the San Francisco Bay and Coyote Creek south to the Bay of Monterey and east as far as Stanislaus County

depicted as a massive black rock known as Rupes Nigra

including Vásquez de Coronado

Historic Map : Cassini Map of Florida, Louisiana, Cuba, and Central America , 1798, Vintage Wall Art United States Entire colonial era A detailed railroad map of the western United States that highlights the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. 5249911 Sheet one of a sixThis is a stunningly rendered 1798 map of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Central America by the Italian cartographer Giovanni Maria Cassini. While visually alluring, this map is cartographically primitive. Florida is here represented as an archipelago. Cassini also fails to attach the Mississippi River to the Missouri. He does however make some effort at naming a number of American Indian tribes in the Mississippi Valley and Texas,