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Part of Long Island; and the coast eastward to the shoals of Nantucket.

Scale ca. 1:600,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Has watermarks. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes view of "Sancoty Head S.S.W. 10 miles distant." Vault AACR2: 100; 650/1; 650/2

Date
1778
Mapmaker / publisher
Knight, John
Place
New England
Scale
1:600,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
8,678 × 2,914 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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"Part of Long Island; and the coast eastward to the shoals of Nantucket." (1778). Knight, John. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Part_of_Long_Island;_and_the_coast_eastward_to_the_shoals_of_Nantucket._LOC_gm72003570.jpg

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