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One of the last of the 18th-century nautical surveys of Boston Harbor, this chart contains many aids to navigation, including soundings, sailing marks, and other directions. The atlas from which it is taken was first published in 1775 by London publishers Robert Sayer and John Bennett. The atlas was later expanded by their assistants and successors Robert Laurie and James Whittle to include this and other charts. It was one of the three successful marine atlases published in England to replace the obsolete The English Pilot.
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3f462z71b
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A chart of the Harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks and other directions
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map
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1
Source metadata
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3f462z71b
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map
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normalized
title
A chart of the Harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks and other directions
description
One of the last of the 18th-century nautical surveys of Boston Harbor, this chart contains many aids to navigation, including soundings, sailing marks, and other directions. The atlas from which it is taken was first published in 1775 by London publishers Robert Sayer and John Bennett. The atlas was later expanded by their assistants and successors Robert Laurie and James Whittle to include this and other charts. It was one of the three successful marine atlases published in England to replace the obsolete The English Pilot.
date
["[1800]"]
year
1800
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
English
identifierLocal
06_01_001207
creators
Robert Laurie and James Whittle
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
Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
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import
pubPlace
London
publisher
R. Laurie & J. Whittle
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42.3333
schema:longitude
-70.9667
extent
1 chart ; 53 x 87 cm.
notes
Depth shown by soundings.
Relief shown by hachures.
Includes depictions of fortifications and settlements.
Appears in The North American Pilot. London. 1800.
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no
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3f462z71b
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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