A chart of the Gulf Stream
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.
- Date
- 1786
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Poupard, James; Franklin, Benjamin
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 5,090 × 3,161 pixels
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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
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