Remarques sur la navigation de terre-neuve à New-York afin d'eviter les courrants et les bas-fonds au sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George

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Creator	Le Rouge, Georges-Louis.
Date	[1785]
Scale	Scale not given
Language	French
Location	Boston Public Library
Collection (local)	Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects	Gulf Stream--Maps
Places	Atlantic Ocean
Extent	1 map ; 32 x 36 cm. on sheet 47 x 62 cm.
Terms and License	No known copyright restrictions. No known restrictions on use.
Notes	Based on Timothy Folger's original annotations ... It would appear that [Benjamin] Franklin added little or nothing beyond the red lines which indicated the portion to be reproduced ...--De Vorsey, L. Pioneer charting of the Gulf Stream, in Imago mundi, 28 (1976), p. 107. Conservation of this piece was funded by Lavinia Lee Witt Touchton of Tampa, Florida in memory of her father, Currie B. Witt, whose study of Benjamin Franklin "was a positive influence in his life." This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=24. Boston Public Library copy in portfolio with a map of the middle British colonies in North America once belonging to Benjamin Franklin. Note reads: "These maps belonged to a lot brought by Dr. Franklin from Europe, and are given to this Library by Dr. Thomas Hewson Bache, 233 South 13th St., Phil. Recd. this Dr. S.A. Green.