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Source Description
Cyprian Southack first published this enormous chart in book form between 1729 and 1734 as The New England Coasting Pilot. This is a later version, with additions including inset charts of Boston Bay, Casco Bay, and New York Harbor. The chart bears many autobiographical notes, such as Southack's 1717 voyage to Wellfleet to salvage the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah. A contemporary writer dismissed the chart as "one continued error, and … of pernicious consequence in trade and navigation." Yet it remains a monument of colonial mapmaking, being vastly more informative than any earlier effort to map New England's coast.
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Document identity
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kk91fq60v
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An actual survey of the sea coast from New York to the I. Cape Briton
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map
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1
Source metadata
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kk91fq60v
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map
stage
normalized
title
An actual survey of the sea coast from New York to the I. Cape Briton
description
Cyprian Southack first published this enormous chart in book form between 1729 and 1734 as The New England Coasting Pilot. This is a later version, with additions including inset charts of Boston Bay, Casco Bay, and New York Harbor. The chart bears many autobiographical notes, such as Southack's 1717 voyage to Wellfleet to salvage the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah. A contemporary writer dismissed the chart as "one continued error, and … of pernicious consequence in trade and navigation." Yet it remains a monument of colonial mapmaking, being vastly more informative than any earlier effort to map New England's coast.
date
["[1758?]"]
year
1758
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_007197
creators
Southack, Cyprian, 1662-1745
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Maritime Charts and Atlases
subjects
Nautical charts--Atlantic Coast (North America)--Early works to 1800
Coasts--New England--Maps--Early works to 1800
Coasts--Maritime Provinces--Maps--Early works to 1800
Nautical charts--New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800
Atlantic Coast (North America)--Maps--Early works to 1800
North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Atlantic Ocean
New England
North America
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
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1
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import
pubPlace
[London]
publisher
Printed and sold by Wm. Herbert under the Piazzas on London Bridge & Robt. Sayer facing Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Source extras
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sf268508b
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schema:latitude
58.166
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-104.466
extent
1 map on 4 sheets : hand col. ; 105 x 248 cm., sheets 108 x 64 cm. or smaller.
notes
Depths shown by soundings.
Shows longitude east and west from Boston.
"Illustrated with particular plans of the harbours of New York, Boston, Canso [i.e. Casco] Bay & Annopolis [sic] Royal, on a larger scale, as also, a new chart of the Atlantic Ocean."
Includes distance charts, notes, decorative cartouche, and insets of New York and Boston harbors, Casco Bay, Annapolis Royal, and the Atlantic Ocean from the equator to N 60⁰.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
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kk91fq60v
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map
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photo
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