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Here for your browsing pleasure is an absorbing map or chart of the Mosquito Shore : with the islands, keys, rocks and shoals, adjacent to (or between) it and Iamaica / done from actual surveys, notes and remarks made between the years 1767 and 1774 by no name given ; done from an actual survey by David Lambi. It was taken in 1781.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras).
Depths shown by soundings. "The delineater haven had many oppertunitys since the above period, to the yar 1781 to corect and adjust his own observations bi compareing with those of many of the kings ships and having corected the work accordingly, it is presumed this cart is as corect as can be made." In upper right margin: 24. Pen-and-ink and watercolor, sectioned and mounted on cloth. Includes text and insets of Lake Nicaragua, San Juan harbor, and the coast from San Juan harbor to Boca del Toro. Imperfect: Smudges across lower half and mended tear in center. Scale ca. 1:1,100,000.
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