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annotations indicates that it is not the copy used in the negotiation,
as Adams in his Memoirs speaks as if a line had been drawn on a
Melish map to illustrate his maximum boundary proposal.'
 A copy of an 1816 edition was sent by Onis to his government
in April, 1817, and one of an 1818 edition in March, 1819.' In
transmitting the latter, Onis said that it was "that which was in
hand in the negotiation of the Treaty." But such identification
might apply either to the particular copy of the map sent, or just
to the Melish map in general. These maps are not now in the Ar-
chivo Hist6rico Nacional, where the originals of Onis' despatches
are filed.
 Other copies of one or another of the 1818 editions, without as
much data as would be desired regarding previous ownership or
use, are preserved by the New York Public Library, the Harvard
College Library, the Boston Public Library, the Provincial Li-
brary and Archives of British Columbia, the Dauphin County
Historical Society (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), and Dr. W. E.
Wrather, of Dallas, Texas. There is one, bearing a superimposed
red line along most of the Adams-Onfs delineation, but without
identification concerning previous ownership or use, in the Library
of Congress, which also has half of another without annotations
of interest here.
 John Melish (1771-1822) was a traveler, merchant, and com-
 mercial geographer.' He was born in Scotland and studied at the
 University of Glasgow. He journeyed to the West Indies in 1798,
 and to Savannah in 1806. In the latter place he set up an import-
 ing and exporting house, and while operating it traveled exten-
 sively. After going back to Scotland in 1807, he returned to the
 United States two years later, this time to remain. He soon made
 his permanent home in Philadelphia.
 Melish began publishing with an account of Travels in the
 United States of America (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1812), and his
 first notable maps were issued in A Military and Topograpkhi
 Atlas of the United States (Philadelphia, 1813), to illustrate the
 campaigns of the war. Following these enterprises he published
 SAdams, Memoirs, IV:110, 239.
 SOnis to Pisrro, July 18, 1818, in A.H.N., Est., 5643; Onb to Irujo, March
 5, 1819, (Md., 5661.
 Ditionary of Amerioa Biography, XII:513.