FANCIFUL MAP-MAKING.
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Utah and Idaho combined, and discharging its waters by two great rivers into the Pacific. This species of geography was doubtless entirely satisfactory to the wise men of this world until they came to know better about it. If the reader will look over the chapters on the Northern Mystery in my History of the Northwest Coast he may learn further of absurdities in map-making.
Map by John Harris, 1705.
A more extended and pronounced exploration was that of two Franciscan friars, one the visitador comi-
