A chart of the Gulf Stream

Containers:
Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section 3
Creator:
Poupard, James and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Extent:
1 Sheets
Language:
English .
Material specific details:
Scale [ca. 1:38,000,000]. Includes inset of North Atlantic and text in left margin,"Remarks upon the Navigation from Newfoundland to New York in order to avoid the Gulf Stream" by Benjamin Franklin. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Includes illustrations. Oriented north to the top, with latitude and longitude lines. Contains note in upper right margin, "plate 5" and in lower margin, "facing page 315". Name on item, James Poupard, Sculp.
Physical facet:
1 map ; uncolored
Dimensions:
21 x 26 cm, on sheet 26 x 40 cm
Other descriptive data:

Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and American Philosophical Society, James Poupard, Sculp., 1786

Related material:

Also appears in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1786.

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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