The map reflects a situation date of 1821 and the sixty-one counties in existence at that time are both named and delineated and colored in shades of green, pink, and yellow. Relief shown by hachures. The map is accompanied in the Atlas by a narrative description on the same page and on an attached appendix giving historical, statistical, and geographic information about the state.
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A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: Henry Charles Carey and Isaac Lea, 1827, p. 23.
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