This water body has been shown on early maps of the island in a very similar shape to its current geometry.

The spelling as a single word appears on a number of early maps and books.

It is also not often easy to find it on an early map.

It was different from the earlier maps, in that people had pushed further into the back country.

He made an early map of the area in 1671.

An earlier similar map, from 1516, came to us only as a copy made in 1600.

"People look to see if their house showed on an early map," she said.

An earlier official map, drawn in 1981, classified the town as out of harm's way.

The earliest maps had only a few cities and the most important bodies of water noted.

Studying early maps will often show the field system in use at the time the map was prepared.