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    "title": "A map of the British and French settlements in North America",
    "description": "Covers the eastern half of North America from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.",
    "date": "[\"[1750?–1759?]\"]",
    "year": 1750,
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        "Lodge, John, d. 1796"
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        "North America--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Covers the eastern half of North America from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, and \"Earl Granville's Property.\"",
        "\"Longitude w. from London.\"",
        "\"The French Incroachments are shewn by Oblique strokes, and their Forts with two Strokes, the English Forts by a single Stroke.\"",
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