As befits their accolade as the most important English globe makers of the 19th century, this wonderful pair of library globes show the most up to date geography of the time. Not only are the tracks of Captain Cook marked but also those used by English sailing ships to India and the Far East. Land exploration is also well documented with details of new territories discovered by the Lewis and Clark expedition in the Pacific North West of the USA and a depiction of a misshapen Vancouver Island. In Australia there is a tentative demarcation line between the English possessions of New South Wales (the Eastern half of the continent) and the Dutch possessions of New Holland (the Western half); this line was laid out by the British governor of New South Wales.

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