Chart Of Choo Keang Or Canton River.

James Horsburgh [East India Company]. [c1834.] [Scale approximately 1:160,000.]. 'To Chas. Marjoribanks, Esqre. and the other Members of the HONBLE: EAST INDIA COMPANY'S Factory at CANTON, THIS CHART of CHOO KEANG or CANTON RIVER, IS Inscribed by THEIR Obedient Servant, Jas. Horsburgh.' 'This Chart is partly constructed from observations made by me during numerous voyages to Canton; but up to the Second Bar Creek chiefly taken from the correct survey of Captains Ross and Maughan of the Bombay Naval Service, excepting the eatsern coast of Lantoa, the coast islands and channel to the eastward of Lintin Island and North Sand were obtained form a late survey by Capt Blakely assisted by other officers of the Company's ships. That part of the River from the Second Bar Pagoda to Whampoa given separate on an enlarged scale is chiefly from surveys performed by Captains Moffat, Newell, and Auber when officers in the Honble. Company's service.' Diagram or View I; View II. Inset for River from Second Bar Pagoda to Whampoa. Scale of nine miles of longitude [approximately 1:600,000]. View III to View VI. Inset: Plan Of The Bay Of Kin Or Cum Or Cam Sing Moon. From Captn. J. Rees & E Jaunceys Plan of that Anchorage 1833. Scale of ½ a mile [approximately 1:24,000]. [113°15'E–114°10'E, 21°50'N–23°7'N.].

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