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A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns house : A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill ; A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston Neck

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Creator	Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Date	[1775?]
Publisher	J.F.W. Des Barres
Scale	Not drawn to scale
Language	English
Location	George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local)	Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects	Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800 Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Places	Boston Boston Harbor Dorchester Massachusetts North and Central America Suffolk (county) United States
Extent	3 views on 1 sheet ; each 12 x 21 cm., on sheet 85 x 63 cm.
Terms and License	No known copyright restrictions. This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
Notes	Three views of Boston by J.F.W. Des Barres created prior to, or just after the beginning of the Revolutionary war; some showing military emplacements by British officers; from Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune.