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Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, drawn from a great number of hydrographical surveys, these charts are followed, according to them executed by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in England

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Creator	Keulen, Gerard van
Date	1783
Publisher	Gerard Hulst van Keulen
Scale	Scale [ca. 1:1,160,000]
Language	English; Dutch
Location	George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local)	Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects	Nautical charts--Newfoundland and Labrador--Early works to 1800 Coasts--Newfoundland and Labrador--Maps--Early works to 1800 Grand Banks of Newfoundland--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places	Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Extent	1 chart ; 59 x 108 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	Second of 6 charts bound in a set, apparently an English version of Van Keulen's "Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-karten van Noord-America," intended for use during the American Revolution. Prime meridians: Paris, Tenerife, and Greenwich. Oriented with north to the right. Depth shown by soundings. Chart in English. Scale bar in Dutch.