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CHATELAIN
CARTE de L'AMERIQUE

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Henry Abraham Chatelain
(1684-1743)

Map of America:
Insert with insular California on sheet, Circa 1703. Chatelain was a geographer and publisher: Atlas Historique, 7 volumes; Amsterdam 1705-20, 1721 and 1732-39.

From 1650-1750, California was erroneously called an island. When Father Eusebio Kino could not get north past the Sea of Cortez in the early 1700's, this thinking began to change.

Chatelain, Circa 1703
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