The coast of West Florida and Louisiana. The Peninsula and Gulf of Florida or Channel of Bahama with the Bahama Islands.
Summary
Scale ca. 1:1,390,000; marine leagues 20 in a degree.
Hand colored.
Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. "The soundings along the Florida coast, shoals, islands, and reefs are in feet."
Pictorial map.
"D.G.4."
From the author's The American atlas, 1776.
On verso: [Plate no.] 25.
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1608
LC Trails, 114
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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1776
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american revolution and its era maps and charts of north america and the west indies 1750 1789
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Date
01/01/1776
Contributors
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain