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Copperplate Illustrations in Dr. John Brickell's 'Natural History of North Carolina' (1737): Sources for the Provincial Map, Flora, and Fauna
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While it is well known that much of Dr. John Brickell's text from his \"Natural History of North Carolina\" was plagiarized from John Lawson's \"A New Voyage to Carolina,\" as well as the writings of the Reverend John Clayton of Tidewater, and Thomas Hariot's \"A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,\" little examination has been done of the map of North Carolina and the illustrations in the text. Brickell's \"Map of North Carolina,\" is derived from Edward Moseley's \"A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina\" printed in 1733. Numerous engravings from Brickell's text have been copied or inspired from engravings in other texts and are compared to the extant material to demonstrate Brickell's plagiarism.
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