History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . in French. Book ii. contains numerous maps,with a brief description of the countries, fourteenlines being devoted to California. In a map of North America drawn to accompanyWinterbothams history, published in New York 1795,Nevada is a blank save the delineation of a streamwith its tributaries flowing eastward into a namelesslake, presumbably Great Salt Lake, the three townsof Axaas, Bagopas, and Quivira, and a section of Hist. Nev. 3 34 EARLIEST EXPLORATIONS. the Sierra Xevada from (»j>poHite San Francisco Baysouthward towanl Lower Calif
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . in French. Book ii. contains numerous maps,with a brief description of the countries, fourteenlines being devoted to California. In a map of North America drawn to accompanyWinterbothams history, published in New York 1795,Nevada is a blank save the delineation of a streamwith its tributaries flowing eastward into a namelesslake, presumbably Great Salt Lake, the three townsof Axaas, Bagopas, and Quivira, and a section of Hist. Nev. 3 34 EARLIEST EXPLORATIONS. the Sierra Xevada from (»j>poHite San Francisco Baysouthward towanl Lower California. In January 1818 was filed in the j^aneral land officea map of western North America hy AVilliani ]Sector,United States surveyor for ^lissouri and Illinois,whose greatest peculiarity so far as the western slopeis concerned lies in drainin<^ into the Willamette thewhole region north of the latitude of San FranciscoBay, and east of the Colunihia and Colorado rivers,tlie Siskiyou Mountains heing crowded south to ac-commodate this Finleys Map, 1826. In 182G A. Finley, of Philadelphia, presented quitean elaborate map, the unknown regions being wellfilled from ill-founded reports, or from the the Kio San Felipe is made to tlow from south-ern Nevada due west through tin; Sierra into Mon-terey }:}ay. The Kio Buenaventura mystery is heremultiplied, so that Irom the great lakes three largestreams are made to flow in the most direct course,regardless of intervening mountains, to the one most southern, the Rio Buenaventura, rises •Licnt. Warmi, who pro«entj» a roiluccd copy in Par. li. lirpt., xi. 23,nys tlic map, though the most coinpletc up to that time, waa never published. PETER SKEEN OGDEN. 35 near the source of the Lewis branch of the Columbiaand empties into Lake Salaclo, which may be GreatSalt Lake, or Utah Lake, as one chooses; thence ittakes up a direct course for San Francisco Lake Timpanogos, the original Lake Ashl
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