(Composite Map to) A new and accurate chart of the Bay of Chesapeake, with all the shoals, channels, islands, entrances, soundings, and sailing-marks, as far as the navigable part of the Rivers Patowmack, Patapsco and North-East. Drawn from several draughts made by the most experienced navigators, chiefly from those of Anthony Smith Pilot of St. Marys; and compared with the modern surveys of Virginia and Maryland. London. Printed for Robert Sayer Map, Chart & Printseller No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs. 1st. July 1786.

• Main Authors: Cook, James, active 1762-1775, Smith, Anthony, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) 1786
• Subjects: American Revolution; Nautical Charts; Anchorage; Hudson; The Shoals; Newfoundland
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Composite nautical chart of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, in 1786. Shows cities, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, ports, bays, anchorage, shoals, islands, rocks and depths, given in fathoms. Relief shown with hachures. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well a...