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I'm interested in the history of letterforms. The lettering on this map does not look eighteenth century. It looks a century later to me-it could easily be published for the centenary. The sans-serif "reference to the plan" and the Tuscan lettering on "Ontario & Oswego" both look very nineteenth century. Notice that it says "1756" and "from Gentleman's Magazine, 1757"-that sounds as if it's refererring back to a past time. Blythwood (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Found it. According to this dealer it's "from Documentary History of the State of New York, published in 1850, based upon an original published circa 1757." Blythwood (talk) 22:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Here's the original it's a redraw of. Notice how much cruder it is. Blythwood (talk) 22:17, 21 November 2022 (UTC)