Interestingly, these globe gores record a large inland body of water labelled ‘Lacus Sal/sus’, or Salt Lake on the East Coast of the present-day United 

s. The lake is joined to the Atlantic by two rivers ‘R. Grande’ at roughly forty degrees north, and an unnamed river at roughly thirty-seven degrees north. In Virginia, the name Rassawick is indicated just north of the southern river. Furthermore, Croaton is shown just offshore. 

Double-page engraved copperplate set of twelve globe gores.

These exceptionally rare globe gores were prepared by 

I, sometime shortly after the discovery of the Le Maire Strait in 1618. These gores correspond to an approximately fifteen-centimetre terrestrial globe, no completed examples of which are known to exist. Furthermore, there is only one other known example of the gores, located in a Parisian institution. 

The gores are also one of the few contemporary pieces to relate Captain John Smith's (1580–1631) first mapping of Virginia, with its alleged giant inland Salt Lake. Smith discussed his survey in a letter to the explorer Henry Hudson who in turn showed this material to Hondius and allowed him to make copies of Smith's manuscript maps for his own works including this set of globe gores.

The source of the map's cartography has eluded map scholars for some time; those that commented on the mapping (and there have not been many) tie it to previous renderings of the Sea of Verrazanno, the great inland sea that was popular on maps of the mid sixteenth century. However, the Sea of Verrazanno had largely been dismissed by serious mapmakers by the late sixteenth century, and here the region includes Native American toponyms that reflect actual observations of the region in question, not just century-old conjecture. 

This map also shows the relationship between John Smith, Henry Hudson and Jodocus Hondius. In mid-1608, Smith was interested in the possibility of the presence of the Great Lakes, which he thought could provide an alternate passage to the East Indies. He was in touch with Hudson, who then allowed Hondius to copy Smith's manuscript maps for his own archive.

Exceptionally rare globe gores prepared by 

I, produced sometime shortly after the discovery of the Le Maire Strait in 1618. These gores correspond to an approximately fifteen-centimeter terrestrial globe, no completed examples of which are known to exist. Furthermore, there is only one other known example of the gores, located in a Parisian institution.

Globe Gores by Jodocus Hondius