Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

A Note on Maps

xiii A NOTE ON MAPS Peter Pond prepared at least three maps in his own hand during his lifetime, but none of these originals are known to have survived. Instead historians must rely on several contemporary copies, drawn by people to whom Pond showed his original maps. The following shorthand names are used throughout, given here with full citations: The Congress Map.“Copy of a Map Presented to Congress by Peter Pond,”(2 copies), Additional ms. 15332c and Additional ms. 15332d, British Library. The Hamilton Map. Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series of records of the Colonial Office, mpg 1/425, National Archives (Kew). The July 1787 Map.“Copy of a Map of P. Pond’s dated Aurabascha July 1787,” H1/700/1787, Library and Archives Canada. The December 1787 Map. Colonial Office, Maps and Plans: Series 1, co 700/America North and South 49, National Archives (Kew). The Gentleman’s Magazine Map.“A Map Shewing the Communication of the Lakes and the Rivers between Lake Superior and Slave Lake in North America,” Gentleman’s Magazine, 60, March 1790. The Stiles Map. “Map Showing the Travels of Capt. Peter Pond, 25 March, 1790,”The Ezra Stiles Papers at Yale University, microfilm collection, xiv ∙ a note on maps (New Haven: Yale University, 1976), 974 es. Original at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. I have concluded that the last four of these are all copies of a map, now lost, that Pond prepared at his post on the Athabasca River in 1787. The contemporary copies of Pond’s maps, with the exception of the one printed in 1790 in the Gentleman’s Magazine, are manuscript maps measuring in feet rather than inches. A few are relatively clear, while others are in fading ink on browning paper. They cannot be reproduced with clarity in a small format, so I have redrawn them once again. Maps 6 through 12 in this volume are my own copies of the contemporary copies listed above. The outlines of the lakes and rivers have been traced faithfully, but the words on the map have been either eliminated or enlarged so that they can be read. None of the writing has been changed in any other way. FRESHWATER PASSAGES ...