Statement Of Responsibility: A.D. Bache, Superintendent.
Content: "No. 8."
Content: Depths shown by soundings in feet.
Content: Chart includes Old South Shoal and New South Shoal.
Content: Includes bearings, distances, tides and tidal currents, and bottom types.
Statement Of Responsibility: "Position determined by the hydrographic party under the command of Chas. H. Davis, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy."
Content: "Outline of Nantucket from map of William Mitchell, Esq. of Nantucket."
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map ; 28 x 21 cm on sheet 34 x 27 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 430064982
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21075946
Other local Identifier: US091.3.12
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6b512410-5292-0134-cd87-00505686a51c

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1846

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Preliminary sketch showing the position of the Shoal recently discovered by the Coast Survey" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1846. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6b512410-5292-0134-cd87-00505686a51c

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1846). Preliminary sketch showing the position of the Shoal recently discovered by the Coast Survey Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6b512410-5292-0134-cd87-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Preliminary sketch showing the position of the Shoal recently discovered by the Coast Survey" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6b512410-5292-0134-cd87-00505686a51c

Wikipedia citation

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