Historic Map : Vaugondy, Diderot Map of Alaska, The Pacific Northwest & The Northwest Passage, 1772, Vintage Wall Art Europe Italy Rome Florence Sicily Naples Venice Map depicting Italy before its unification. 5248832 it was interpreted as the

it was interpreted as the Bering Strait by cartographers

and Mauritania

Argentina"

and the route to El Dorado

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

Historic Map : Vaugondy, Diderot Map of Alaska, The Pacific Northwest & The Northwest Passage, 1772, Vintage Wall Art Europe Italy Rome Florence Sicily Naples Venice Map depicting Italy before its unification. 5248832 it was interpreted as theA truly fascinating 1772 map of the northwestern parts of North America by Robert de Vaugondy and Thomas Jefferys. Essentially depicts the north eastern parts of Asia, speculations on northwestern America, and Admiral De Fonte's mythical conception of a Northwest Passage. Heavily based upon earlier work by Thomas Jefferys, Thomas Swaine Drage, Gerhard Muller, and James De Lisle. Vaugondy prepared this map prior to the voyages of James Cook to this