This general chart of the Atlantic Ocean is one of John Seller’s most distinctive charts as it bears the title within an elephant cartouche. This feature inspired Jonathan Swift’s quatrain scorning the ignorance of map-makers: ‘So Geographers in Afric-maps, With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o’er unhabitable Downs, Place Elephants for want of Towns.’ This is an example of the second state bearing the imprint of the combine. This was formed to rescue Seller from financial difficulties. Its roots are the very important second Willem Jansz. Blaeu West Indische PASKAERT, c.1630, the first sea chart relating to America to use Mercator’s projection. The coverage here does not extend as far westward and excludes the Gulf of Mexico, an area of little or no English activity or interest at the time. For his cartouche Seller draws upon the Blaeu version published by Jacob Aertsz. Colom, c.1655. Here though he is generous to the elephant giving him a less onerous ‘tower’ to bear. Firstly the depiction of Tierra del Fuego is more up-to-date, and a swathe of new geography is inserted around the La Plata River. The region between Chesapeake Bay and Long Island in North America is improved, an area that the early Dutch cartographers had long had difficulty with. Florida bears the standard early nomenclature of both the Spanish and French. Further north the toponyms are completely English. All of the English colonies are named including New Iarsey and placenames in Carolina. Burden (1996) nos. 233 & 312/ Shirley (2004) M.Sell-3c no. 35/ Verner (1978) ‘John Seller and the Chart Trade in Seventeenth-Century England’ in Thrower, Norman J. W. (ed.) ‘The Compleat Plattmaker’ pp. 127-57.