Catalogue description 1 item extracted from CO 5/655 (f 259). Map of the eastern parts of Georgia, South...

1 item extracted from CO 5/655 (f 259). Map of the eastern parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida from Charleston to St Augustine. Showing place names, settlements, forts, rivers, soundings. With inset of Great St Simon's Isle with the strait between it and Jekyll Isle. The map shows a non-existent southern branch of the Altamaha River with its mouth at Talbot Island, Florida. The Nassau River reaches the sea at this point. Scale: 1 inch to about 17.5 miles; inset, 1 inch to 3 miles. Compass rose. By R W Seale.

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2367. The map is described in William P Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps third edition, revised and enlarged by Louis De Vorsey, Jr (Chapel Hill and London, 1998), entry 248, but this copy is not mentioned. The map was printed as the frontispiece to Benjamin Martyn's An Account showing the Progress of the Colony Georgia in America from its First Establishment (London, 1741).