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Sketch A Showing the Progress in Section No. 1 U.S. Coast Survey in 1844 - 45 - 46 - 47 & - 48
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United States Coast Survey
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Sketch A Showing the Progress in Section No. 1 U.S. Coast Survey in 1844 - 45 - 46 - 47 & - 48
Description
English: A unusual triangulation chart of the New England coast line from the scarce 1848 edition of the Superintendent's Report . Covers from Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard north past Cape Code and Boston as far as Portland, Maine. Shows various triangulation point and some of the attached river systems. Includes some of the shoals discovered around Nantucket in the 1840s. The 1848 edition of the Superintendent's Report is highly unusual in that its maps do not have borders, was common in all subsequent editions.
Date 1848 (dated)
Dimensions height: 23 in (58.4 cm); width: 15 in (38.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,23U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,15U218593
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Geographicus link: NewEngland-uscs-1848
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Report of the Superintendant of the United States Coast Survey, Washington, (1848 edition).

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