"It [the powder horn] bears upon the yellow surface, a map, cut with the point of a knife, embracing ... the greater part of the modern state of New York, with the addition of a small portion of the Dominion of Canada containing Montreal ... The horn is not dated. There is however internal evidence that it is not earlier than 1750 nor later than 1783 ... The following notes ... are intended to show, first, which were the European nations who claimed the ground shown on the map, and why; secondly, how England and France came into collision in that region; thirdly, where and how they fought, and with what results ... "--Page 2.