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Butterfly Ballot

European Map Maker’s View in 1597 of Today’s Southeastern US

One of many historic documents available online from Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia.  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/mellon/.   The inscription under the map reads: Wytfliet, Cornelius. Descriptionis Ptolemaicć avgmentvm. Louvain: Tijpis Iohannis Bogardi, 1597.