A new and correct chart of the coast of East Florida, and part of West Florida and Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Florida or Cannel of Bahama, Bahama Islands or Lucayos, Bahama Banks and Martyrs, with the soundings, roks, banks, currents, shoals & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of new actual surveys and other original materials, regulated and corrected by astronomical observations

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A new and correct chart of the coast of East Florida, and part of West Florida and Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Florida or Cannel of Bahama, Bahama Islands or Lucayos, Bahama Banks and Martyrs, with the soundings, roks, banks, currents, shoals & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of new actual surveys and other original materials, regulated and corrected by astronomical observations
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Title:
A new and correct chart of the coast of East Florida, and part of West Florida and Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Florida or Cannel of Bahama, Bahama Islands or Lucayos, Bahama Banks and Martyrs, with the soundings, roks, banks, currents, shoals & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of new actual surveys and other original materials, regulated and corrected by astronomical observations
Title (alt.):
Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-kaarten van Noord-America in het groot beginnende van Kaap Charles, of de Golf van St. Laurens, tot aan de Golf van Mexico
Creator:
Keulen, Gerard van
Date:
1784
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Nautical charts--Florida--Early works to 1800
Coasts--Florida--Maps--Early works to 1800
Florida--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Florida
Extent:
1 chart ; 58 x 111 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
Amsterdam : G. H. van Keulen
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:1,080,000]
Language:
English
Dutch
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Sixth of 6 charts bound in a set, apparently an English version of Van Keulen's "Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-karten van Noord-America," intended for use during the American Revolution.
Prime meridians: Paris, Tenerife, and Greenwich.
Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings.
Inset: A plan of St. Augustine.
"These charts are followed, according tho them executed by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in England."
Chart in English. Scale bar in Dutch.
Identifier:
06_01_009613