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• 1 media/1650farrer.jpg 2016-06-06T20:26:09-07:00 Mapping Asia Adjacent to the United States 13 plain 2018-10-11T19:25:42-07:00 This very notion of Capt. Brown’s that the United States bordered on China may seem laughable to us now, but it was a very old idea. The Spanish often called the Pacific “Oceano Asiatico,” and they even considered the Pacific islands, including the Philippines, to be part of “Las Yndias del Occidentales,” the West not the East Indies.
  
  Likewise, English promoters of American colonization desperately hoped to find Asia close by, or at least just beyond a direct water route across a minor continent, the infamous, elusive Northwest Passage. In 1651 English mapmaker and member of the Royal Virginia Company, John Farrer, sent home a promotional map mistaking the mountain chain along the east coast of California, the Sierra Madres, described by Francis Drake (whose portrait is displayed on the map for reference), for the Appalachian Mountains bordering the western reaches of the explored parts of Virginia (note that west lies along the top of the map). The map is, in fact, accurate as far north as the Delaware River, but then veers into imaginary geography in depicting the Hudson as running a short path directly into the Sea of China. A legend on the map notes that it is only a ten-day march from the head of the James River to the rivers that run into the "Indian Seas."[22]
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  ^{[22] Jeremy O' Connor and Michael DiRuggiero, Collectorsfolio, New Your, NY, accessed online on 9/20/14, http://www.collectorsfolio.com/rare-books/86/231/farrar-farrer-john-a-mapp-of-virginia-discouered-to-ye-hills-first-edition}