Here is a nice blurb on a book about a pioneer and cartographer from
Maine, USA.

http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/lifestyle.aspx?articleid=142118&zoneid=14

*Maps of Maine displayed in biography of Moses Greenleaf * *

By Ardeana Hamlin <mailto:[log in to unmask]>*

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*By Ardeana Hamlin*
Bangor Daily News

In the first decades of the 1800s, when Maine was still a frontier,
Moses Greenleaf and his maps of Maine contributed significantly to the
understanding of the district’s interior and the lay of its land,
information he hoped would accelerate its settlement.


Angie