Summary: | Relief shown by hachures Manuscript map drawn with watercolor, ink and pencil. Map listed in: Manuscript and annotated maps in the American Geographical Society Library: a cartobibliography, 2010. Shows the track of the schooner United States, sledding tracks and locations of camps. Contains over two hundred feature names. The manuscript maps associated with Hayes's expedition complement a number of early photographs of Greenland, also from the Hayes expedition, which are in the AGS Library. Hayes served as surgeon on Elisha Kent Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition, an account of which was published as "An Arctic boat-journey, in the autumn of 1854 (Hayes 1860). Hayes led another expedition north on the eve of the American Civil War. He tells the story of this expedition in "The land of desolution" (Hayes 1871) and "The open polar sea" (Hayes 1885). Color not given
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