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Whale chart preliminary sketch Princeton University Public content

Author(s):
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : National Observatory, 1851 (N. York : Lith. of Wm. Endicott & Co.)
Access:
Public
Description:
Shows whale fishing locations for four species by season. Relief shown pictorially. "Published at the National Observatory by authority of Commo. L. Warrington, Chief Bureau of Ordnance & Hydrography." "Series F." The whale chart was released as series F a part of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137. Includes notes. In upper left margin: 78.
Subject(s):
Whales—Maps, Whaling—Maps, Sperm whale—Maps, Right whales—Maps, Thematic maps—1851, and World maps—1851
Call number:
HMC01.7023
Held by:
Princeton: Historic Map Division, Special Collections, Firestone Library
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