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Professor Cumming has produced a work of scholarly exactitude, diligence, and detachment, for which the historical profession must stand in his debt. It comprises a "List of Maps of the Southeast During the Colonial Period," a thoroughly documented bibliographical listing of 450 regional maps of southeastern United States, and of local maps south of Virginia and north of the Florida peninsula; an introductory essay: "The Early Historical Cartography of Southeastern North America;' and sixty-seven highly successful collotype reproductions of pertinent world, regional, and local maps. The material is made usable by numerous appendices and indices. Particularly helpful to ethnohistorians is Appendix B, "Indian Tribes and Settlements," which cites the maps in the bibliographic listing most appropriate to a study of historic Indian settlements. Despite the significant data supplied by these maps for the later colonial period, the locations of Southeastern Indian tribes during the