https://www.loc.gov/item/2002623131/?loclr=blogtea
On the right side of the map, just above where the map is split, top to bottom, you see the vertical dotted line which is latitude 40' N.
My question is, how do you read the squiggly 's' symbol? ยง kind of looks like that.
I understand sometimes it's and 's' sound, and other times more like an 'f' sound.
So, in that area of the map, there is something that looks like it says "the great falls" except it has a few of those symbols in it, and the one word doesn't exactly look like "great".
Can anyone determine what that says please?
Also, if anyone has any knowledge of the Susquehannock Native Americans, I'd love to hear all about them.
Not sure I quite understand which parts of the map you mean, so correct me if I am off, here. But looking at the 40' latitude line, if it's the text block that starts "The great Sassquhana River." of falls it says"..full of falls and Iles [islands] until about 10 or 12 miles above the Sasquahana Fort and then it runs cleare but Down wards not Navigable but with great danger with Indian Canoos by Indian Pilots."
That long f-looking thing in the text is indeed an s, and pronounced as such. The 40 degree latitude line of course is the northern border of what Calvert was granted for his colony, Maryland, and as Calvert paid for the map it of course it would be there.