Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis

Title:Course of the river Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres; taken on an expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the year 1765. By Lieut. Ross of the 34th regiment: Improved from the surveys of that river made by the French.
Author:Ross, John
Scale:ca. 1 inch to 14 miles
Situation Date:1765
Publication Date: 1772.
Type:Original
Features:Drainage, river islands-some named, lakes, bluffs, relief-pictorially and by hachures, portages, existing and abandoned Indian settlements, forts, communities, quarries.
Comments:Features Note: Shows historic points of interest.Includes descriptive notes and "Depths of the Mississippi."
Coverage:Illinois to Gulf of Mexico (western two-thirds of Mississippi)
Repository:David Rumsey Map Collection | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Mississippi Department of Archives and History | Mississippi River Commission | Boston Public Library,Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Language:English
Publisher:London, Printed for Robt. Sayer,
Size (inches):44 X 13.3
Color:Y
Link:http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4042m.ar078000