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A chart of the Gulf Stream / James Poupard, sculp.

Poupard, James.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Philadelphia, Pa. : American Philosophical Society, 1786?]

NOTES
Appears in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1786.

Includes inset of North Atlantic and text in left margin "Remarks upon the navigation from Newfoundland to New-York, in order to avoid the Gulph Stream on one hand, and on the other the shoals that lie to the southward of Nantucket and of St. George's Banks," by B. Franklin.

Mounted on cloth.

Upper right margin: plate 5. Lower margin: facing page 315.

Copy imperfect: Mended triangular loss in upper margin.

Scale [ca. 1:38,000,000] (W 900--W 700/N 600--N 300).

SUBJECTS
Gulf Stream--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800.
North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Nautical charts--Gulf Stream--Early works to 1800.
Nautical charts--North Atlantic Ocean--Early works to 1800.
Gulf Stream.
Atlantic Ocean.
North Atlantic Ocean.

RELATED NAMES
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Remarks upon the navigation from Newfoundland to New-York.

RELATED TITLES
[Peter Force map collection] ; 7
Remarks upon the navigation from Newfoundland to New-York.

MEDIUM
1 map ; 21 x 26 cm., on sheet 29 x 46 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G9112.G8P5 1786 .P6 Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g9112g ct000136 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g9112g.ct000136

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