Tribune of July, furnishes the following description : --

" It must be extremely old for its delineation of the country shows that it was made before the interior of New- York or New England was explored. New-York and Boston are fixed points, and some of the villages along the coasts are truly named and placed pretty nearly in their true position ; but a few miles from the coast, in any direction, and the map maker seems to have

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been utterly at fault. The sliores of the Hudson and East Rivers on botli sides, close up to the city of New- York, would appear to be swarming with Indian tribes of most uncouth names. The Riwanoys, [Siwanoys,] Quiropeys, Makiraans, Moribans, [Morikans,] Peequtoos on the East; and the Sanhicans, Tappaans, Wai-anawankongs, Wappinges, Waareneks, Konekotays, Matanackowses, Armeomecks, [Ermomex, | Macquaas and fifty others between New-York city and the Mohawk river. The head waters of the Hudson are made to penetrate to near the St. Lawrence river, which is called the " Great River of New England," while Lake Champlain and Lake George, highly magnified, are transported £^vay east of the Connecticut river. Philadelphia is not set down at all, but near the site where Philadelpliia should be, a place doubtless of much greater consequence is marked under the name of Mageckqueshon."

The Map of which the description is here given, is doubtless a republication of the older Dutch Maps of New Netherland (now New- York) published by Vischer, Jansson and others, nearly two hundred years ago, the title and other parts of which have been altered to suit the English market. The St. Lawrence was laid down by the Dutch as far back as 1614 as the " Great river of New Netherland," and in 1656 or 1659 they called it the " Great river of Canada." We find Bassett now changing it into the Great river of New England!