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Source Description
This chart of the entrance to New York was included in the 1737 edition of The English Pilot: The Fourth Book. Tiddeman's chart served as the standard chart of the area for nearly fifty years, until the publication of The Atlantic Neptune. This chart includes rough depictions of topography along the coastline, in the form of hachures, or lines. These lines were intended to give the navigator a sense of height, such as cliffs or other tall landforms. Compared to the detailed and finely executed headland views of the same area in The Atlantic Neptune, Tiddeman's version is crude, and less instructive.
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Document identity
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cj82m508x
label
A draught of New York from the Hook to New York Town
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
id
cj82m508x
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
A draught of New York from the Hook to New York Town
description
This chart of the entrance to New York was included in the 1737 edition of The English Pilot: The Fourth Book. Tiddeman's chart served as the standard chart of the area for nearly fifty years, until the publication of The Atlantic Neptune. This chart includes rough depictions of topography along the coastline, in the form of hachures, or lines. These lines were intended to give the navigator a sense of height, such as cliffs or other tall landforms. Compared to the detailed and finely executed headland views of the same area in The Atlantic Neptune, Tiddeman's version is crude, and less instructive.
date
["[1737]"]
year
1737
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_010267
creators
Tiddeman, Mark.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Maritime Charts and Atlases
subjects
Nautical charts--Raritan Bay (N.J. and N.Y.)--Early works to 1800
Nautical charts--Lower Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800
New York Region--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Lower Bay
North and Central America
Raritan Bay
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
London
publisher
Printed for W. Mount & T. Page
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
40.5167
schema:longitude
-74.05
extent
1 map ; 45 x 57 cm.
notes
Covers Amboy east to Jamaica Bay and from Harlem south to Shrewsbury River.
Depths shown by soundings.
Oriented with north to the right.
In the English pilot, the fourth book. London : Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page, 1737.
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no
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cj82m508x
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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881485ec7ee2f0eb