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1639 Anchorage
Before the Ship Channel
Note:
Anchorage Mark
RCNWT
Geo-Fact
Note: Anchorage
Mark
Rancocas Creek
Note: Water Depth Soundings for Navigation.
Soundings obtained by poling or “casting the lead”.
Ref:
Library of Congress
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.
- Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities.
- Pen-and-
ink and watercolor.
- Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection.
- D escribed in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the third volume has binder's title "Manuscript
maps of New- Netherland and Manhattan drawn on the spot by Joan Vingboons in 1639.
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