over here, the map in the book by jonathan carver called a new map of north america from the latest discovery, 1778, engraved for carver's travels but compared to dobbs's map this shows a little bit more of the western coast of north america and then it has a river of the west which as i said earlier was another name for river oregon by carver but he did not apply that immediately to the map that appeared in his book. this follows roughly the root of the snake river. they are near the head of the missouri river. later, with lewis and clarke, the route that they followed across the continent across the missouri river. this book here is by gerhart frederick, a german, french explorer and geographer. this is very little-known and i rarely see it cited in the historical literature but the map is stunning. [speaking french] >> a new part of the discovery made by the coasts, the unknown coast of north america. in the 1730s and 40s russian explorers including baron, sailing with the russians and a number of others traveled from the west, the east coast of russia or siberia to alaska and the northwes

we move over here, this is the map of a book by jonathan carver. it's called a new map of north america from the latest discoveries, 1778 engraved for carvers traffic.so compared to dodds map, this shows a little bit more of the western coast of north america. it has keep blanco and then it has a river of the west. which is as i said earlier was another name for what was called river oregon by carver but he did not apply that name immediately to the map that appeared in his book. so this follows roughly eight , the route of the columbia or the snake river and its oregon's near the head of the missouri river. so later with lewis and clark that would be the route they followed across the continent of the missouri river and down the snake river. so this book here is by friedrich or who was a german french explorer and geographer. this is very little-known and i rarely see it cited in the historical literature but the map is absolutely stunning. and the book and the map are in french, it's entitled how they sell hooch or. [speaking french] that means a

if we move over here, this is the map in the book by jonathan carver. it's called a new map of north america from the latest discoveries, 1778. engraved for carver's travels. so, compared to dobbs' map, this shows a little bit more of the western coast of north america. it has cape blanco. and then it has a river of the west. which, as i said earlier, was another name for what was called river oregon by carver. but he did not apply that name immediately to the map that appeared in his book. so, this follows roughly the map -- the route of the columbia or the snake river, and its origins are near the head of the missouri river. so later, with lewis and clark, that would be the route that they followed across the continent. to go up the missouri river and down the snake river. a this book here is by german-french explorer and jog reafer -- geographer. this is very little known and i rarely see it cited in the historical literature, but the map is absolutely stunning. the book and the map are in french. this is entitled -- speaking foreign language] so that