<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">William Berry's 1681 map, "North America Divided into its Principall Parts</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">where are distinguished the severall States which belong to the English,</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Spanish and French . ."</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">shows a peculiar boundary between Carolina and Florida. Although this was</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">an English-produced map, it obviously does not favor English claims for</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Carolina's territory. It is </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">marked with blue arrowheads on the image at this URL:</span><div class=""><a href="http://blog.ncmaps.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1681BerryBoundary.jpg" class="">http://blog.ncmaps.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1681BerryBoundary.jpg</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems similar but, more “purposeful” than the boundary between Virginia and Florida</div><div class=""> on Jansson’s 1641 America Septentrionalis. <span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Is there a historical basis for this</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">strange boundary, or is it just a random creation of the cartographer?</span></div><div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class="">Thanks in advance for enlightening me.<br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></font><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Jay Lester</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">North Carolina Map Blog <</span><a href="http://blog.ncmaps.org/" style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">http://blog.ncmaps.org/</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">></span><br class=""><div class="">
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