Chart from New York to Timber Island including Nantucket Shoals from the latest surveys . Printed & sold by J. Norman no.75 Newbury Str, Boston.

• Main Authors: Norman, William, -1807, Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norman, William, -1807 1794
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; Anchorage; Barres; Belle Isle; Long Island; Long Island Sound; Nantucket; The Shoals; Newfoundland
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Nautical chart representing the New York state coast to Timber Island, Maine, including Nantucket Shoals. Shows county boundaries, islands, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, bays, ports, shoals, and depths, given in fathoms. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, a scale of nautical miles, as well as a compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet. With inset map: Plymouth Bay. "I have carefully examined this chart and find it to agree with Holland's Surveys [of] the shoals by one well authenticated by 13th Pilots. Osgood Carleton. Teacher of Navigation and other Branches of the Mathematics." Chart is 121 x 188 cm, on fold-out sheet 125 x 191 cm. The American Pilot : Containing the navigation of the sea coast of North America, from the streights of Belle Isle to Cayenne, including the island and banks of Newfoundland, the West India islands, and all the islands on the coast … Published by William Norman in Boston, 1794. Folio; rebound in half calf over boards. Atlas comprised of eleven charts (including one ancillary chart and one inset chart). Charts show coastlines, cities, topography, vegetation, bodies of water, drainage, bays, ports, anchorage, shoals, rocks, directions of currents, and depths, given in fathoms. One chart features pictorial illustrations of ships and a sea monster; another provides descriptive notes with navigational instructions. Copper-plate engravings. The 1794 version of John and William Norman's American Pilot features foundational maps of Nantucket by Pinkham and the Carolinas by Daniel Dunbibin. This atlas is among the earliest to be published in the United States. In 1785, John Norman had proposed to the Massachusetts legislature to print a "Correct Set of Compleat Maps" depicting the coast from Newfoundland's Banks to the Gulf of Mexico. These maps were meant to align with the recent surveys conducted by the British Government, such as those by J.F.W. Des Barres, Samuel Holland, and others published in the Atlantic Neptune. Norman's proposal ...