Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
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Colonial Maps of the Caribbean
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“Spain
Maps Her 'New World',” by David Buisseret in Encounters (February 1992,
No. 8, pp. 14-19): Excerpt—“Spanish colonial cartography is an enormous
subject, for which most of the sources have been lost. There are,
it is true, a good many maps in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville,
the Biblioteca Nacional, the Museo Naval in Madrid, and the Archivo General
of Simancas. But these are just the fragmentary remains of what was
once a much greater production. many maps were destroyed by fires,
and others were stolen during periods of civil disturbance, so we must
always remember that we are dealing with partial evidence….”
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