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Title	Lesser Antilles 1784
Full Title	A chart of the Antilles, or, Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles : from the situation of the Caribs Islands, compared with that of the westermost isles of the Mexican gulf, they are named the Windward Islands by the Spaniards, as well as by the French, the Dutch, and the Danes ; while the English, who consider the position of those islands respectively to the Barbados give them the name of Leeward Islands, or Leeward Charibbee Islands / by L. S. de la Rochette. 1784 ; W. Palmer, sculp.
Creator	Delarochette, L. (Louis), 1731-1802
Contributors	Palmer, W. (William), 1739-1812 Faden, William, 1749-1836. General atlas
Publication Date	1784
Map Publisher	published by Wm. Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing-Crofs
Subject	Antilles, Lesser--Maps--Early works to 1800 Portolan charts
Continent	North and Central America
Region	West Indies
Notes	Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings and spot heights. Prime meridian: London. Map has a compass rose in middle of map with directional rhumb lines. Shows towns, placenames, shoals, banks, channels, a few anchorages, and various notes on the type ocean bottom in several location. Includes 23 coastal relief profiles with leagues bearing top and side -- "Astronomic observations made on the land" with placenames, latitudes, longitudes W. of London -- "Latitudes taken at sea" -- and inset of "Positions ascertained by courses and distances given; on a scale reduced to the third." Appears in : Faden's General atlas ; London: 1811, no. 42. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5000.ar197700 Electronic reproduction available from George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00029159/00001
Type	Image
Scale	1:2,700,000
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : hand col. ; 49 x 46 cm., on sheet 54 x 50 cm.
Original Item ID	AGS RARE 240 A-1784
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am013096
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2012
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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