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    "title": "Carte du havre de Chibucto avec le plan de la ville de Halifax sur la coste de l'Accadia ou Nova Scotia latitude 44° 31ʹ",
    "description": "Depths shown by soundings, contours and shading.",
    "date": "[\"1750\"]",
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        "Rocque, John, -1762",
        "Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771"
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        "American Revolutionary War-Era Maps",
        "Boston Athenaeum, Cartographic Collection"
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        "Halifax (N.S.)--Pictorial works",
        "Halifax (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Acadia--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Bedford Bay (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Halifax Harbour (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Canada",
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        "North and Central America",
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    "publisher": "Publiée par hautorité par Jean Rocque, Charing Cross"
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        "Depths shown by soundings, contours and shading.",
        "Hand-colored.",
        "\"Publish'd by authority of John Rocque at Charing Cross, 1750\"--Lower margin of map.",
        "Dedication in cartouche: \"To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner of trade & plantations &c. &c. This chart of Chibucto Harbour, on the coast of Accadia, or Nova Scotia, with the plan of the town of Halifax; is most humbly inscrib'd by his Lordship's most obedient servant, John Rocque.\" View of buildings and a mill, presumably the new town of Halifax.",
        "Inset at lower left: Plan of the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia.",
        "Engraved map.",
        "In French and English."
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