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Keywords: 1850 Mitchell Comparitive Chart of the World's Mountains and Rivers - Geographicus - MtsRvrs2-mitchell-1850.jpg A good example of the S A Mitchell Sr / Cowperthwait map of the principal mountains and rivers of the world Mountains are shown along the bottom of the map with important cities and geological formations noted at their appropriate elevations Rivers are arrayed along the top of the map descending from the seas to their sources “ where known The Missouri and Mississippi River systems at 4100 miles are listed as the world ™s greatest rivers and Dhaulagiri at 26 262 ft the world ™s tallest mountain The mythical Mountains of the Moon are noted as the source of the Nile Engraved by F Humphrys for issue as page 75 in the 1850 edition of Mitchell ™s New Universal Atlas 1850 dated Size in 16 13 object history credit line accession number MtsRvrs2-mitchell-1850 <i>A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires Kingdoms States and Republics Of The World </i> 1850 - 1853 issue Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell River-related diagrams Diagrams of mountains 1850 engravings Diagrams in English Geographic comparison diagrams
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