Gesta Septentrionalis

=== Odd Spellings ===   “these People are Singelir from the Rest of thare Nighbors. thay Speake a Hard un Corth Langwige Scarst to be La...

James Lynd and the Unktoka was one of my more quixotic posts.  It was fun to research... and I still hope it encourages any scholars who mi...

This is one of my favorite old maps of North America: Jean-Baptiste Franquelin's "Map of the Mississippi" from 1676-8:   ...