Colored Even though the map depicts extensive knowledge of the interior, "the great rivers are
inaccurately placed and the Nile erroneously appears to originate in two adjacent lakes in
Central Africa"; Prime meridian through Ferro Island. Dr. Oscar I. Norwich David Rumsey Map Center copy 1: Norwich no. NOR
0118.
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Dr. Oscar I. Norwich collection of maps of Africa and its islands, 1486 - ca. 1865
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