File:1756 Lotter Map of Eastern Pennsylvania, & New Jersey cropped from Geographicus-1756.jpg
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[edit]Description1756 Lotter Map of Eastern Pennsylvania, & New Jersey cropped from Geographicus-1756.jpg |
English: 4:3 ratio cropped version of full German language Lotter Map[dead link] of the center colonies of England dated concurrent with the French and Indian War (1756-1763) when emigration by German settlers was quite fashionable. (The write up of the original map LINKED HERE should be read.) The notes here are very different and period specific to geography and perceptions. • While the N-S dimensions of the projection are squashed, the Pennsylvania details are extremely revealing of the mindset of the day about the ways for settlers to travel west from in the province of Virginia, province of Maryland, and province of Pennsylvania. Of particular interest: • The Susquehanna Valley in and around the Maryland line north from both York, PA and Lancaster, PA on either side of the Susquehanna upto the Blue Mountain Ridge looks extremely appealing relative to the rest of the work's territories. This was already transistioning into the idealic landscapes of today's Pennsylvania Dutch territories. • The Wyoming Valley (which at that time had only a few recent pioneers) is very small in comparison to actual lands. At the time the Susquehanna Valley above Blue Mountain Ridge had only recently been sold out from under the bitter Delaware peoples by their Iroquois masters and was sparsely populated and still largely unknown. (This cavalier treatment was one reason the Delaware largely supported the French in the conflict against the British and their Iroquois allies.) • The map locates about six Indian towns and perhaps one settlement north of the Susquehanna Gap. The West Branch Susquehanna country is very distorted as it is far more convoluted. • The Lehigh Valley, is under sized and disproportionately absent from the mountains through which its upper half traverses west of the Pocono Mountains along the Delaware River, which are also missing on the map, as is its real relation to the Susquehanna and Wyoming Valleys. The Lower Lehigh region, where other Germans are known to have settled is however also portrayed as inviting and attractive. This may be why the mountains beyond the Blue Mountain escarpment and the Poconos was omitted. • The valley of the Schuylkill River clearly leads inland albeit on a more northerly course than actual, but it and the branches of the stream to the west later followed by the Union Canal led the eyes west from Philadelphia even as the real ones led turnpikes, canals, and railroads in later eras before motor cars. • The distortions of the Chesapeake Bay, Susquehanna, and Potomac have to be deliberate to make the lands to the interior seem far more accessible and inviting. • Also of geographical interest is the density of the western ascents towards the gaps of the Allegheny and the Allegheny Plateau country--the map correctly telegraphing that the country would support farming. |
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"Kupfermine" (copper mine)
"Der Ost Arm der Susquehanna Flugs" (East Branch of the Susquehanna River)
"Hier sind lauter Berge die man nicht passieren kan / Montzs inaccessi" (impassable mountains)
"Hier sind lauter immer fortwährende Berge / Montium juga continua" (Endless Mountains)
"Moxunay" (Mahanoy, from Lenape Maghonioy meaning salt deposits)
"Blacklog"
"Wasserfall / Cataracta" (waterfall)
"Cresap" (Cresap's Fort, Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania)
"Die blaue Gebirge oder der Kittatinny Berg / Iuga coerulea sive Kittatin̄i" (Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania))
"West Arm" (West Branch Susquehanna River)
"St. Antoni Wildnis / Desertum orientale" (Saint Anthony's Wilderness / Stony Valley / State Game Lands #211 in Dauphin, Lebanon, and Schuylill counties in Pennsylvania)
"Mills"
"Conventry" (Coventry Township, now North Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and South Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania)
"Pickering" (Pickering Creek/Valley, Phoenixville/Upper Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania)
"Neus"
"Sop"
"Die Diffaun Mauer" ({{Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania)}}
"Ways"
"Susquehanna" (likely referring to a Susquehannock town in the area of Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania))
"Millers" (Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania along Pequea Creek)
"Rey Hügel" (Rey Hill)
"Grousshall" (Grouse Hall, North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)
"Hay Cock" ([[:Category:Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania]]|Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania]]]]
"Fichtenwald / Sylvia populorum" (spruce forest)
"Kisequox Keles"
"Wasserfall" (waterfall)
"Sandeore"
"Canary Insul"
"Goose Cr." (Goose Creek)
"Bergspitzen" (mountain peaks)
"Ford"
"Mile Creck / Hunting Cr."
"Brun̄quellen / fontes" (springs)
"Mineral quell / fons mineralis" (mineral source)
"Licking"
"Fruckers Co."
"Halls"
"Charles Ins."
"Burnets Hugel / Collis" (Burnetts Ridge, Lycoming Countym, Pennsylvania)
"Kent Insula"
"Mother Cr." ([[:Category:Murderkill River River)|Murderkill River River)]]
"Sandichter Boden unfruchtbar / Terra arenosa et sterilis" (sandy and unfertile land -- the New Jersey Pine Barrens)
"Tieffer Fluss" (deep river)
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