Penobscot Bay

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Item Information

Title:
Penobscot Bay
Creator:
Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801
Date:
[1770–1779]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Genre:
Manuscript maps
Location:
William L. Clements Library
Collection (local):
William L. Clements Library Collection
Subjects:
Penobscot Bay (Me.)--Maps
Fort George (Me. : Fort)--Maps
Places:
Maine > Penobscot (bay)
Maine > Hancock (county) > Castine
Extent:
1 ms. map : col. ; 108.7 x 77.8 cm.
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Scale:
Scale 1:50,000.
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
Catalog record
Notes:
Unfinished, topographical map of the upper part of the bay.
This may be one of the drawings prepared under the direction of Samuel Holland for the Atlantic neptune.
Figure of a fort has been roughly penciled in at the site of Fort George at Castine.
Clinton Map 32.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
8263
Barcode:
B2982428