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THE B R A D F O R D MAPa silence which we are told issometimes more eloquent thanwords.A reduced facsimile of one ofthese copies of the Bradford Map,similar to the one in Mr. Fiske'sbook, appears in General Wilson's"Memorial History of theCity of New York," Vol. II, page185, and is described in a footnoteas a complete copy of themap as it was printed by Bradfordin 1728. I trust that, for thesake of historical truth and accuracy.General Wilson will correctthis foot-note in future editionsof his " Memorial History," andreplace his reproduction of thecopy with the imaginary date of1728 with a facsimile of the trueand genuine, although some-
THE B R A D F O R D MAPwhat tattered and torn, engravingof the Bradford Map, which haslain open to inspection in theNew York Historical Society fornearly a century, and made it allthese long years quite as easy tobe in the right as in the wrongin this matter.The reports which come at intervalsfrom north, south, eastand west, of the finding of originalBradford Maps, have in theman element of ludicrousness toa<strong>ny</strong> one familiar with the excessiverarity of engravings executedin this country at the period towhich the map belongs and thepoverty of the arts at that distanttime. I have been searching diligentlyfor early American printsfor more than thirty years, and I
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