. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. 1618. Geilekerckgot the Mediterranean Sea in about the right place, as they hadhad that a long time, but thought Mexico was in Canada. He had a coupleof railroads running across the world, which he probably meant for theequator and the ecliptic. Sellers map of 1626 showed California as a fine, large island, startingwith Cape Blanco, about opposite the Island of Vancouver, and extendin
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. 1618. Geilekerckgot the Mediterranean Sea in about the right place, as they hadhad that a long time, but thought Mexico was in Canada. He had a coupleof railroads running across the world, which he probably meant for theequator and the ecliptic. Sellers map of 1626 showed California as a fine, large island, startingwith Cape Blanco, about opposite the Island of Vancouver, and extendingto Cape San Lucas. San Francisco he obligingly took oflF the island ofCalifornia, and located on the west coast of Newe Granada, where Utah nowis. He omitted the Great Lakes. But what are a few little things like theGreat Lakes to a mapologist like Seller? San Francisco was lucky to get onthe map at all, at that early date. In 1663, N. Visscher shifted San Francisco back to California Island,and put the name Draco under it. He accomplished this change withoutany great disturbance of realty values, because the name San Francisco atthat time merely designated what we now know as the Gulf of the THE AMERICAN RED CROSS EXHIBIT
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