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Lithographed map. 57x83 cm. (22x32½"). Set loose in custom folder. 

Much larger, though little more detailed, version of the Pelham's map first issued the preceding year, which Wheat remarks as showing "that a start [on the survey] had been made but that precious little had been accomplished to date. Apparently all that had actually been done (and that is problematical) was to survey a line north from an initial point in the valley of the Rio Grande, near Albuquerque (which is not named), to Taos. The remainder of the map, which includes present Arizona, is taken up with the names of Indian tribes. About all that can be said for Mr. Pelham is that he got his `sketch' in on time, but that practically no surveying had been done." Despite this criticism, it is still an interesting if rather barren depiction of the Southwest so recently won from Mexico, with Santa Fe nestled among mountain ranges, various rivers shown, the different bands of Apache Indians and other tribes located. See Wheat Transmississippi 854.