This map, from his book, shows (from south to north) Point Monterey, Port Sir Francis Drake (now San Francisco), Cape Mendocino (Capetown, south of Ferndale), Cape St. Sebastian (just north of Brookings, Oregon), Cape Blanco (north of Port Orford, south of Bandon, Oregon) and the semi-mythical Strait of Anián (perhaps the Straits of San Juan de Fuca and the San Juan Islands, between the U.S. and Canada, between Seattle and Victoria, B.C.). The map shows Brobdingnag as a peninsula extending west into the Pacific, to the north of the Straits.
The river in the crude fictional map more or less corresponds to the location (but not the direction of flow) of the Klamath River.
The little blip of a point just below the river would correspond to Trinidad Head. Just below that point would be Humboldt and Arcata Bay.
On this 1703 fictional map from Gulliver’s Travels, written in 1726, Arcata is marked with the red star.
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Good afternoon,
I would like to request that meetings involving the Gateway Plan be scheduled after 5 pm on weekdays. Many of us who will be heavily impacted by this brobdingnagian development idea are working regular 9-5 jobs.