Asia according to the best authorities.
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Relief shown pictorially.
In upper right corner: 51.
Prime meridian: Philadelphia.
From: Carey's General atlas of the World and quarters, 1814.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
LC copy stamped on: 626888.
Hand coloring differs from G7400 1814 .C3.
Tartary, a vast country in the northern parts of Asia, bounded by Siberia on the north and west: this is called Great Tartary. The Tartars who lie south of Muscovy and Siberia, are those of Astracan, Circassia, and Dagistan, situated north-west of the Caspian-sea; the Calmuc Tartars, who lie between Siberia and the Caspian-sea; the Usbec Tartars and Moguls, who lie north of Persia and India; and lastly, those of Tibet, who lie north-west of China.
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