Claude Joseph Suathier. A Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York...1779. Artists_Nicolas Robert This map contains insets of

This map contains insets of "Texas as it was in 1835 under Mexican rule"

It could reference what we would now term ancient archeological sites or alternatively more recently abandoned villages in the wake of the demographic holocaust produced by the Columbian Exchange

from Birds of America

Watercolor for plate 77: “Bird of Paradise” Strelitzia reginae

which is black

Claude Joseph Suathier. A Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York...1779. Artists_Nicolas Robert This map contains insets ofClaude Joseph Sauthier (French, 1785 1851) A Chorographical Map of the Province of New York in North America London: William Faden, 1779. Fine engraved map on six sheets joined The last and best large scale map of an American colony. Drawn on a scale of five miles to the inch, it is the most detailed printed map of any extensive part of North America published during the Revolutionary period. A MAGNIFICENT MAP OF NEW YORK, with original hand colour in