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You are viewing a Map of Kupreanof Strait. It was taken in 1849.
Nautical charts.
Depths shown by soundings. Ms. in black and red inks with blue wash on tracing linen. Traced names in Russian. Names added in red ink in English. Handwritten in ink at bottom: March 1891. Received this from Lieut. Comd. H.E. Nichols. It is a tracing of a map loaned to a Captain trading at Kodiak, on which his remarks & names have been put in red ink. [Signed] George Davidson. Traced probably from a plate in M.D. Tebenkov's atlas: Atlas sieverozapadnykh beregov Ameriki. St. Petersburg, 1852. Stained, foxed, and fold-lined. Scale [ca. 1:75,000] ; Mercator proj. (W 153015'--W 152005'/N 58009'--N 57045').
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