PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 the US western boundary follows

the US western boundary follows the Red River Northwest

John Gould (1804-1881) Nyroca ferina [Pochard]

As a cartographic claim to a contested area it is part of the cartographic war between Britain and France that later would later turn into the actual war of 1756-1763

but its beak is not nearly so disproportionate to its size

PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 the US western boundary followsPIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710 1777),after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America Mezzotint with exceptional original color London: John Bowles, 1768 13 1 2 x 19 7 8 sheet Thomas Pownall, a British statesman who arrived to America in 1753 and took positions in colonial government (Governor of Massachusetts,1757; Governor of South Carolina, 1760), organized leading print dealers in London to publish a series of plates