Maps of East and West Florida. nautical chart
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Scale ca. 1:500,000.
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Alternate title from Peter Force's catalog of printed maps: Florida and its vicinity.
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
"To the Marine Society of the city of New York ...; To the hon'ble, the planters in Jamaica ...; To all commanders of vessels round the globe ... "
Drawn in 1774, but was not published until 1781, 6 years after the author's A concise natural history of East and West Florida, to which it belongs.
Includes sailing directions, notes on some shipwrecks, 9 land identification profiles, "View of the entrance of St. Mary's River," and "View of Fort St. Marks, at Apalache seen from th[e so]uthward ... "
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1622
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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