The following note accompanies this map and is signed by Walter: "This chart was given to me September 20, 1995 by Dr. John E. Dornbach of Seabrook, Texas. This is one of the two charts carried by Col. John H. Glenn on the first U.S. manned orbital flight in the Project Mercury Gemini capsule Friendship 7, February 20, 1962. The three-orbit flight covered approximately 130,000 km. in 4 hours, 55 minutes. Dr. Dornbach was the person responsible for producing this chart for Aeronautical Chart and Information Center at that time. Later he was transferred to N.A.S.A. to produce the Lunar lander maps and ultimately became the Director of the Earth Resources branch at NASA. John Dornbach was a classmate of mine in the Geography Graduate School at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. in 1950-52. Walter K. Morrison."
Uses Paris as the prime meridian. German version of Bellin's 1744 map originally published in Charlevoix's Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France.
Published by the Department of Agriculture for the Information of Intending Settlers, January 12th, 1882. Areas of the map show prospective property grids of approximately 10 sq. km further divided into 36 plots of land. It also shows the locations of First Nations reserves.