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| Keywords: 1732 Herman Moll Map of the West Indies, Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean - Geographicus - WestIndies-moll-1720.jpg Artwork s of the sailing routes and currents Moll provides insets of five important Spanish ports including St Augustine Veracruz Havana Porto Bella and Cartagena As privateer fleets grew in strength and number in the early 18th century full scale assaults on major ports became increasingly common Moll's choice of these key treasure ports leaves little doubt regarding his intentions and sources Moll further fills this marvelous map with numerous notations that while bearing no direct impact on piracy in the region do offer considerable insight into his political persuasions He identifies for example the river route through Tabasco and Chiapas via which supplies and cannons were transported to the important Pacific port of Acapulco He also notes the Spanish fort of Pensacola where all their Indians have Deserted and gone to ye French at Mobile Just to the east of this in northern Florida he identifies the land of the Apalache once a powerful Indian empire which by Moll's time had all but vanished This area was attacked and according to Moll brought over to English rule by the governor of South Carolina James Moore in 1704 In a few areas he also comments on some of the produce and mineral richness of the land identifying the Silver Mines of Coahuila the American Indian horseman of the Great Plains Cacao Plantations in Costa Rica sources of indigo cochineal and silvester in the mountains of Guatemala and the great number of Breeves in Cuba and Texas Breeves curiously were a kind of wild Spanish bovine that later evolved into the Texas Longhorn Cartographically this map does offer a few interesting innovations These include Moll's careful and accurate depiction of the Gulf Stream current as well as his orientation of Florida's St John's River St Whan's R This is the first map since the 16th century Le Moyne map to correctly plot the St John's river running south from its entrada north of St Augustine Earlier maps plotted the river running northwest into the great lake of Apalache - an error dating to Mercator's faulty 1608 mapping of the region circa 1720 undated Size in 40 24 object history credit line accession number WestIndies-moll-1720 Moll H <i>A New and Complete Atlas</i> c 1720 Geographicus-source PD-Art-100 Old maps of Central America Old maps of the Caribbean 1720 maps Herman Moll Maps in English | ||||
