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1 item extracted from FO 72/168 (f 213). 'The Bay of Honduras': chart showing soundings....
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/116
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from FO 72/168 (f 213). 'The Bay of Honduras': chart showing soundings.... dating from 1800 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/116
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1800
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from FO 72/168 (f 213). 'The Bay of Honduras': chart showing soundings. Also shows the isthmus between 13°30'N and 19°N: hills, rivers, place names; area between the Belize and Hondo rivers defined as 'Bay Men or British Logwood Cutters'. Scale: 1 inch to about 22 miles. Quarter compass rose and lines. Longitudes based on Ferro meridian. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. Corrected and improved in 1800. Published 12 January 1800 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London. A dotted line in black ink connects falls on the River Hondo with a point high up the River Wallis and thence to the coast at Mullingers River.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 50.3 cm x 65.5 cm
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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 3989
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980137/
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MPK 1
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