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94105
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CARTE D'AFRIQUE

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Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)
French geographer, Publisher and engraver of Paris, Royal geographer 1693.

Map of Africa:
From the early 18th century, this map includes many place names - the Cape of Good Hope, The Nile Delta, The Congo, Cape Verde Islands, The Land of the Hottentots, Barbary and Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

Nolin, Circa 1739
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So Geographers, in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o'er unhabitable Downs,
Place Elephants for want of Towns.

by Jonathan Swift

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