Florida - Called by ye French Louisiana

Moll's important map of the southern US, divided at the time between Spanish Florida, French Louisiana, and the British colonies of the Carolinas. Several explorers routes are noted on the map alongside an expanding road network. These include the 1687 expedition of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle through Louisiana and Arkansas, and the 1613 & 1616 expeditions of Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis through Texas.

Some early European forts and settlements are marked, but the majority of names on the map are Native American groups and villages. The theoretical boundaries of the English colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are shown extending across the Mississippi all the way to the west coast, according to their royal charters. These claims were later abandoned. The region of modern-day Arkansas is described as having "many mines" and as a "country full of mines". The famed silver mines of Coahuila, Mexico are also noted in the lower-left corner.

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