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Title: Survey of the Coast about Cape Lookout in North Carolina, taken the 29th. of June 1756. This Draught is Most Humbly Presented to His Excellency Arthur Dobbs, Esqr. His Majesties Captain General, Governor & Commander in Chief in & over the Province of North Carolina, & Vice Admiral of the Same, By His Excellencys Most Obedient & Most Devoted Humble Servant Arthur Mackay
Creator: Mackay, Arthur, cartographer
Contributor: Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1751
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "The map is dedicated to Arthur Dobbs, Governor of North Carolina, and the great advocate of the Discovery of the North-West Passage.[And adversary of the Hudson's Bay Company.] It is a very rare chart." Kashnor dates as ca. 1756. Text on entering and using harbor. MS note: 377. Prime meridian: London. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis, LVC. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 377.
Extent: 1 map ; 35 x 27 cm., sheet 49 x 36 cm.
Identifier: 093:377 S
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/279
Language: English
Subject: Lookout, Cape--Maps--Early works to 1800
Nautical charts--North Carolina--Lookout, Cape--Early works to 1800
Time Period: 1756
Place: North America
United States
North Carolina
Cape Lookout
W 76°30'/N 34°29'
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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