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    "title": "China Sea",
    "description": "Shows several \"best routes\" for shipping.",
    "date": "[\"1850\"]",
    "year": 1850,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "creators": [
        "Horsburgh, James",
        "Bateman, J. (John)",
        "East India Company"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
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    "subjects": [
        "South China Sea--Maps",
        "Pacific Coast (Asia)--Maps",
        "Nautical charts--South China Sea"
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        "South China Sea"
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    "extent": "1 map on 2 sheets : mounted on linen ; 127 x 99 cm, on sheets 68 x 101 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Shows several \"best routes\" for shipping.",
        "Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.",
        "\"To Capt. D. Ross, and his assistants Lieuts. P. Maughan, P. Crawford, and J. Houghton, of the Bombaymarine; who under the auspices of the Honble. East India Company having performed with arduous zeal a difficult and dangerous exploration of the China Sea, so essential to the safety of navigation, this chart although with an extension of limits, being chiefly constructed from their valuable surveys, is now inscribed as a tribute due to those laudable exertions, by their sincerely obliged friend. James Horsburgh.\"--Sheet I.",
        "\"Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Honble. East India Company, October 1st 1821--according to Act of Parliament, with additions to 1846.\"--Lower margin of sheet I.",
        "\"Published 1st Feby. 1823, by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Honble. E.I. Co., according to Act of Parliament. Additions to 1850\"--Lower left corner of sheet II.",
        "Includes notes and 43 views of coastlines as seen from the ocean."
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