File:French Shore Newfoundland 1785.png

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English: The Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland with Newfoundland's so-called 'French Shore' or 'Treaty Shore' highlighted in blue (explained on the map as the area of "The French Fisheries on the Coast of Newfoundland"). Cropped from a map by British map engraver and publisher William Faden issued in 1785 titled "The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territories according to the treaty of 1784" (the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, ratified in 1784).
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Source Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, U.S.
Author William Faden, London, 1785

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