An explanation of the map
Subtitle: which delineates that part of the federal lands, comprehended between Pennsylvania west line, the rivers Ohio and Sioto, and Lake Erie : confirmed to the United States by sundry tribes of Indians, in the treaties of 1784 and 1786, and now ready for settlement
By: [Rev. Manesseh Cutler]
Contributors: St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813, contributor; Cutler, Manesseh, editor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Description and travel; History
Notes: Published anonymously.

The map referred to was apparently a separate publication, A copy of the Explanation, with map, is listed by Sabin (no. 18175) as being in the New York state library, but this is an error since the copy in question had no map. A map in the Library of Congress, which may be the one intended to accompany the Explanation, has the following title: A map of the federal territory from the western boundary of Pennsylvania to the Scioto River: laid down from the latest informations and divided into townships and fractional parts of townships agreeably to the ordinance of the Hon. Congress passed in May, 1785.

Extracts from the letters of M. St. John de Crevecoeur: p. 23-24.

Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.