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| Figure 14 Detail from Nicholas Visscher's Novi Belgii Novaeque Angeliae nec non Partis Virginiae Tabule, 2nd state, Amsterdam, 1651-1655. Hand-colored engraving. 18 3/8" x 21 13/16". (Courtesy, New-York Historical Society.) Dutch cartographers immediately incorporated information from Arendt Van Curler's 1642 letter to Killian Van Rensselaer in their maps. This map from the early 1650s paraphrases Van Curler's description of the beautiful flats to describe the broad floodplain and islands of the Mohawk River above the great falls at Cohoes. |