The surveys for this edition were clearly undertaken prior to 1836, judging from the detail provided of the City of New York, and it shares a great deal with later Colton publications through the stylistic mix of detail (including the development of the railways, roads and city/town planning), as well as the inclusion of land relief.  In this map Colton includes a view of New-Brighton as well as plans of New Haven, New Brighton, Tompkinsville and the adjoining grounds, Richmond Co., Staten-Island;  City of Newark, Essex Co. New Jersey, Brooklyn and Williamsburgh.  He also includes State, County and Town boundaries. 

As if to highlight the changing times and the transition from an old Colonial world to a modern, urban, industrial and manufacturing world, Colton and Calvin Smith include features from both in the same map - villages with Post Offices, churches and meeting houses, turnpikes and post roads, native Indian settlements, windmills and telegraph stations, canals, railways (and projected courses).  The map also includes the sites of Revolutionary War battles and even the location of the execution of Major Andre at Tappentown (Oct 2, 1780).  The inclusion of  ‘Bathing Houses’ and a Hotel on Coney Island as well as the location of horse racing and trotting courses are clear indications of the rise of the leisure industry arising from new made wealth.