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Title: An accurate chart of the world, with the new discoveries
Creator: Kitchin, Thomas, 1718-1784, cartographer
Contributor: London Magazine
Date Created and/or Issued: 1758-02
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: MS note indicates this map was done for the February 1758 edition of "London Magazine." Kitchin incorporates a great many features borrowed from Buache and other fanciful mapmakers, the West Sea, de Fonte's passages, de Gama Land and Bering's Land. He uses Humboldt's compass variation style with some additional speculation. Anson's voyage is traced from Seale's earlier map. "Also a View of the General & Coasting Trade-Winds, Monsoons or Shifting Trade-Winds, & the Variations of the Compass; from the Latest and Best Authorities." Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 129373.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; 31 x 44 cm., sheet 32 x 45 cm.
Identifier: 129373
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/1715
Language: English
Time Period: [1758]
Place: World
W180°
E180°/ N80°
S60°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library

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