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Melish's Travels - Through the United States of America, in the Years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811 (Hardcover)
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Melish's Travels - Through the United States of America, in the Years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811 (Hardcover)
Series: Travel in America
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In order to provide a "living picture" of America and to entice his
fellow countrymen to emigrate to the United States, John Melish
published in 1812 his "Travels through the United States of
America, in the years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811;
including an account of passages betwixt America and Britain, and
travels through various parts of Britain, Ireland, & Canada," a
work that has come to be seen as an objective portrait of America
in the early nineteenth-century. Born in Scotland, where he began
his career in the textile industry, Melish visited the United
States several times beginning in 1806, finally deciding to settle
in Philadelphia in 1811. In the preface to this work, Melish notes:
"as I have always considered books of travels to be very defective
when unaccompanied by maps, I have spared no labour, nor expence
[sic], to have a good set of maps to illustrate this work." These
were Melish's first maps, and they formed the basis for his later
career in cartography. Reinforcing his observations of the places
he visited, these first-hand maps focused on cities, towns, or
transportation hubs and included topography and information on
local settlements and roads, predominantly covering the
Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West. Considered to be some of the best local
maps of the time, they were regularly updated with each
publication. Melish's maps came to dominate the cartography
industry in America, and he set the standard for future American
map-makers.
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