History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . s bo vcn unos llanos dilata^Ksiinos,que sin duda Bon los tularcs do que liaccn inenci<in en su dario y nia]« elpadre Font, sicndo esta Bierra de San la (jue como & distancia <le cua-renta U-guas veia nevada al oricntc de los tulures; y aunouo aqui no hay estadistancia, se van abriendo las sierras, de nimlo que 6k lo ultimo solo so v6 la de8an Mdrcos: 2 Icguas. JJiario, Doc. llUt. ilex., %6n6 u., torn. i. 207-S. FROM WINTERBOTHAM. 33 vada in common with other undefined the Histoire Vniverselle des hides Orientale
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . s bo vcn unos llanos dilata^Ksiinos,que sin duda Bon los tularcs do que liaccn inenci<in en su dario y nia]« elpadre Font, sicndo esta Bierra de San la (jue como & distancia <le cua-renta U-guas veia nevada al oricntc de los tulures; y aunouo aqui no hay estadistancia, se van abriendo las sierras, de nimlo que 6k lo ultimo solo so v6 la de8an Mdrcos: 2 Icguas. JJiario, Doc. llUt. ilex., %6n6 u., torn. i. 207-S. FROM WINTERBOTHAM. 33 vada in common with other undefined the Histoire Vniverselle des hides Orientales,Diuisee en deux liures, faicte en Latin par AntoineMagin, Dovay, 1611, I copy the Granata Nova etCaKfornia, which, however, presents httle historicalsionificance. The work from which it is taken pur-ports to contain an account of the descovuerte,nauigation, situation, et conquete, faicte tant par lesPortugais que par les Castillans, Ensemble leursmoeurs et Religion. A Latin poem of twenty-fourlines introduces the general history, which begins. Rectors Map, 1818. with comments on the ancient cosmographers andthe discovery of Columbus, the first book giving thehistory of the Spanish Americas, and closing with asonnet 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 concerne
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