Danckerts closely followed Frederick de Wit’s fine maritime map of c. 1668 (Shirley 444), both cartographically and in its decorative elements. The allegorical scenes at the coners of the map represent the elements: Fire is represented by war and destruction, Air by the heavens, Earth by farming and husbandry and Water by ships at sea and a spouting whale. The plate was substantially revised c. 1685., Shirley 495