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A Chart of the harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks, and other directions.
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A Chart of the harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks, and other directions.

Scale ca. 1:28,000. 2" to the left of the title; concentric circles, drawn in ink, centered on compass roses; and, a stamp "Engr. Dept. U. States Topl. Bureau." Annotated on verso: Boston. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. From The North-American pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence. 1777. v. 2. Vault AACR2

Date
1777
Mapmaker / publisher
Robert Sayer And John Bennett (Firm)
Place
Boston Harbor
Scale
1:28,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
10,164 × 6,342 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"A Chart of the harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks, and other directions." (1777). Robert Sayer And John Bennett (Firm). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Chart_of_the_harbour_of_Boston,_with_the_soundings,_sailing-marks,_and_other_directions._LOC_74692592.jpg

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