Proposals of Osgood Carleton and John Norman, for publishing by subscription, an accurate map of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, compiled according to an act, passed by the general court, from actual surveys made by their order : exhibiting, the lines of towns and counties, with the principal roads, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, islands, rocks, shoals, channels, minerals, public buildings, mills and manufactories, with the true latitudes and longitudes, and all other things necessary to be contained in a map

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