This map in French of Asia and Europe, with title translated as 'The Great Continent', shows most of Africa, part of northern Australia, countries, kingdoms (by symbol), cities, towns, place names, mountains in pictorial form, rivers, seas, lakes, islands, sea routes, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Nile, Euphrates, Tigris, Rhine, Danube, Indus, Ganges, Mekong, Chao Phraya with rivers in Burma (Myanmar) and Bengala (Bangladesh) depicted as flowing from Lake Chiamay, Huang He, Yangtze, London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna, Moscow, Constantinople (Istanbul), Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Cairo, Tripoli, Algiers, Baghdad, Delhi, Colombo, Pegu, Ava, Martaban, Aceh, Batavia (Jakarta), Malacca, Bangkok, Manila, Macao, Canton, Peking (Beijing), Great Wall, China, India, Empire of Mogul, Japan, Korea, Russia, Great Tartary, Arabia, Persia, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Greece, Italy, France, England, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Ethiopia, Congo, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, Formosa (Taiwan), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and others. The continuation of this map at the bottom, with overlapping, is the map titled 'Terres Australes'
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C6321-08 MAPS 177.B.1.(4)
English
Top part of 2 maps D2018_000061 and 000062_BL
by Pierre Du-Val
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