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Des Barres; Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres
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English: A chart of Port Royal and Kingston harbours in the island of Jamaica. Composed and published from the deposit of surveys in the Office of the Right Honourable the Lords of TradeTwo sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variation not shown. Ungraduated. Bar scale in nautical miles. Contents Note: Plantations named. Plate same as HNS174A. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, land green. Red/brown coastal convention. Port Royal, Kingston and Greenwich coloured red.
HNS 174B A chart of Port Royal and Kingston harbours in the island of Jamaica...
Date circa 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Dimensions Plate impressions 75 x >52.5cm and 75.5 x >53cm.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/560791
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previous number: HNS 174
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