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Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket.

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Title on verso: Nantucket Shoals and Buzzards's Bay by Lieutt. Knight, 1778. Soundings shown in fathoms. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over an undecipherable figure, all of which are over the letters GR and J. Whatman. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 650/3; 650/4; 650/5

Date
1778
Mapmaker / publisher
Knight, John
Place
Massachusetts
Scale
1:100,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
12,178 × 6,686 pixels

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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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"Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket." (1778). Knight, John. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buzzards_Bay_and_shoals_of_Nantucket._LOC_gm72003569.jpg

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