Draught of the Bay of Honduras and the Musqueto Shoar
Summary
Scale ca. 1:430,000.
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Has watermark.
Oriented with north to the left.
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.
"Variation 6d. 30 m. easterly in the year 1764."
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 2127
LC Luso-Hispanic World, 61
Shows part of the coasts of Honduras and Belize.
In pencil: 32.
Includes table "Latitude of the different points of land in the Bay of Honduros & the Musqueto Shoar."
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Vault
AACR2: 100; 650/1; 651/2
Tags
Date
01/01/1764
Location
gulf of honduras
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain