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    "label": "A general map of the middle British colonies in America, viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island",
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    "title": "A general map of the middle British colonies in America, viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"1771\"]",
    "year": 1771,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6t053n89d",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_006249",
    "creators": [
        "Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "American Revolutionary War-Era Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Northeastern States--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Great Britain--Colonies--America--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
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        "Northeastern United States",
        "United States"
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    "publisher": "Printed for Carington Bowles"
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    "extent": "1 map : col. ; 49 x 64 cm.",
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        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Hand colored.",
        "Shows \"West longitude from London\" and \"from Philadelphia.\"",
        "Differs from other copies in absence of Connecticut River north of \"Great Falls.\" Also differs in coloration of boundaries: Ohio and Kentucky River are colored as boundaries; Pennsylvania extends north to a line at approximately 42⁰40ʹ; Maryland extends west to \"Yochio Geni.\"",
        "Includes text, historical notes, distance charts, and inset of \"A sketch of the remaining part of Ohio R. &c.\""
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