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EmmaClaireF
Railways and flight routes are marked with pencil; railways are marked with hatched lines and flight paths are marked with dotted lines.
Tags: green, mountain range, terrain, Topography, waterways
EmmaClaireF
Major cities and towns are marked with large pink stars; major rivers are marked in blue and labeled.
EmmaClaireF
Elevation above sea level is marked by shading in four degrees, with darker colors indicating areas of higher elevation.
Tags: green, mountain ranges, navigability, Topography, waterways
Tags: 18th century, Alaska, colored outlines and shading, continent outlines, european exploration, French, geopolitical divisions, human presence on land, illustrations, Kamchatka, labels of tribal lands, lakes, native americans, Navigation, North America, notes on time and captains of voyages, Pacific, ports, positional knowledge (level of accuracy?), rivers, ship routes, theoretical geography, transportation network, treatment of the unknown, waterways, well-defined geographic information
YuanHengM
Transportation via waterways was crucial in the 18th century Hamburg region. Therefore, this map recorded waterways in details. Following the blue color wash, readers can easily identify most of the waterways. Furthermore, the map showed the ebb and…