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| Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Northwestern South America (Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama) - Geographicus - NewGranada-pinkerton-1818.jpg An altogether extraordinary 1818 map of the northwestern parts of South America by John Pinkerton Covers the modern day countries of Columbia Venezuela Panama and Ecuador as well as parts of Peru and Brazil Pinkerton offers impressive detail throughout noting indigenous groups missions towns and cities swamps mountains and river systems Upper left hand quadrant features the title plate and two distance scales one in British Miles and the other in Spanish Leagues Cartographically speaking this is an often neglected part of the world - especially in the early 19th century Though the coastlands had been well mapped early in the 16th century the interior was rarely penetrated The combination of mountainous terrain daunting jungles malaria and unfriendly indigenous groups combine to make this area all but unexplorable - even today Nonetheless Pinkerton make a commendable attempt to piece together early conquistador accounts explorer's journals missionary records and indigenous reports into a coherent mapping of the area By far the most interesting aspect of Pinkerton's work in this region is his ethnographic commentary on the various indigenous tribes He identifies the Gaberres inventors of curare the most active poison hithero known the Encabellados or hairy nation and the Chiricoas a small wandering nation among others He also names the sites of various Spanish towns and missions along the numerous inland rivers systems that spring from the Amazon and Orinoco Pinkerton offers commentary on rapids portages speculative river courses and notes on navigation In the more populous regions on the coast and to the west of the Andes Pinkerton names the important cities of Bogata Quito Caracas and Panama Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 20 28 5 object history credit line accession number NewGranada-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Old maps of the Viceroyalty of New Granada 1818 maps Maps in English | ||||
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