A draught of the Gut of Canso, between Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, surveyed by the King's ships in 1761
Description
Printed map. Visual scale. Includes 2 inset maps: A plan of Port Dauphin, on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, surveyed in 1743; A plan of Murgain or Cow Bay, on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, surveyed in August 1760. In upper, right margin, "x".
Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 384, p. 82: "In North-American pilot. v.1, plate 10... Shows navigational sightings, anchorages, shoals, soundings, and relief..."