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This detailed navigational chart shows the shallows, sandbars, rocks, and other directions useful to ship captains trying to navigate their way through Boston Harbor. Published by the French Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, its information is based on a chart by English hydrographer Joseph Des Barres in his "Atlantic Neptune" (1777-1781). Finely engraved and by use of shading and hachuring, the chart also shows, the physical inland terrain. The scale of the map is so large (approximately two inches to a mile) that individual buildings and small tracks of land are defined as well. Clearly marked sandbanks within the harbor occupy present day reclaimed and developed areas.
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Document identity
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3f462x37t
label
Carte particuliere du havre de Boston
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
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3f462x37t
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Carte particuliere du havre de Boston
description
This detailed navigational chart shows the shallows, sandbars, rocks, and other directions useful to ship captains trying to navigate their way through Boston Harbor. Published by the French Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, its information is based on a chart by English hydrographer Joseph Des Barres in his "Atlantic Neptune" (1777-1781). Finely engraved and by use of shading and hachuring, the chart also shows, the physical inland terrain. The scale of the map is so large (approximately two inches to a mile) that individual buildings and small tracks of land are defined as well. Clearly marked sandbanks within the harbor occupy present day reclaimed and developed areas.
date
["1780"]
year
1780
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
French
identifierLocal
05_04_000069
creators
Chabert, Joseph Bernard, marquis de, 1724-1805
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801
France. Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Maritime Charts and Atlases
subjects
Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Boston Harbor--Early works to 1800
Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Boston Bay (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
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pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Paris
publisher
Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine
Source extras
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sf268508b
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jq086303k
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42.3333
schema:longitude
-70.9667
extent
1 map ; 67 x 92 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Depths shown by soundings.
Prime meridian: Paris.
"No. 336."
Appears in the Neptune Americo Septentrional. Paris, 1778-80.
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3f462x37t
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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