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    "label": "An exact chart of the river St. Laurence, from Fort Frontenac to the island of Anticosti shewing the soundings, rocks, shoals &c with views of the lands and all necessary instructions for navigating that river to Quebec",
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    "title": "An exact chart of the river St. Laurence, from Fort Frontenac to the island of Anticosti shewing the soundings, rocks, shoals &c with views of the lands and all necessary instructions for navigating that river to Quebec",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially. Soundings in fathoms.",
    "date": "[\"1775\"]",
    "year": 1775,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007264",
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        "Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794"
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    "collections": [
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    "subjects": [
        "Saint Lawrence River--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Saint Lawrence River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Nautical charts--Saint Lawrence River--Early works to 1800"
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        "Relief shown pictorially. Soundings in fathoms.",
        "Includes text.",
        "Insets: The Seven Islands -- A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario -- St. Nicholas or English Harbor -- The mountains of our Lady or Notre Dame -- The road of Tadousac -- The traverse or passage from Cape Torment into the South Channel of Orleans Island -- A view of the lands from Cape Torment to the Butt as it appears in sailing through the Travers into the South Channel.",
        "Appears in Thomas Kitchin's General Atlas. London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, [1790]."
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