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'A Chart of Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland [now part of Canada] Including...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/720
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- WO 78/720
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1794
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Description (What the record is about)
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'A Chart of Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland [now part of Canada] Including the Islands of Langley, St. Peters [i.e. Saint-Pierre] and Miquelon [French territory] with the Southern Entrance into the Gulph of St. Laurence from actual surveys. Taken by Order of Commodore Palliser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labradore, & c ...': showing soundings. Reference table to anchorages, rocks, soundings and currents. Oval cartouche containing the title; views of parts of the coast. Scale: 1 inch to about 1 league. Compass indicators and lines. Surveyed and published (by permission of the Admiralty) by James Cook; this edition published by Laurie and Whittle, Fleet Street, 12 May 1794. Insets: charts of Great Jervis harbour, Harbour Breton, Saint Lawrence harbours and Channel-Port-aux-Basques, and a map of Saint-Pierre; compass indicators; Saint-Pierre surveyed by Engineer Fortin, 1763. An extension westward is affixed to the right-hand edge of the map.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- A 33
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Engraved
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 798
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3269656/
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WO 78
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