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    "title": "Straits of Mackinac with the approaches thereto from Lakes Huron and Michigan and the entrance by the Détour Passage to the St. Mary's River",
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        "Kearney, James, -1862",
        "Boschke, A.",
        "Siebert, Selmar",
        "United States. Topographical Bureau"
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        "Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and isolines.",
        "Includes sailing directions, notes, water levels table and light house directory.",
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        "At head of title: seal with \"Survey of the Lakes 1856.\"",
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