Printed for Wm Herbert, London, 1780
59 cm x 83 cm
Laid paper, a light greenish gray. Title on lower right is in a decorative rococo cartouche festooned with flowers.
Presents mountains, rivers, interior and seacoast towns, noting foreign trade settlements (French, English, Dutch, Portuguese, and Danish).
Extends in the west from Gujarat eastward across to the mouths of the Ganges and the Aracan River in Burma, and south to below Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and includes the Laccadive and Maldive Islands. Prominent rhumb lines. Some interior roads shown on southeast coast as far south as Tiruchirapalli and from the Krishna Delta via Golconda (Hyderabad) up northwest to Surat and Berhampur.
Large areas of the interior west of Odisha (Orissa) are blank, with the notations, “This large extent of Country wholly Unknown to European Geographers”; “The Course of this River but little known”).