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<dl><dd>1 map ; 46 x 62 cm</dd>
<dd>"Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, March 21st 1850"</dd>
<dd>Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings in feet</dd>
<dd>Mounted on linen</dd>
<dd>Legend for gravel, mud, oysters, rock, sand and weeds</dd>
<dd>Notes on tides</dd>
<dd>Inset: Continuation of the River</dd>
<dd>"Price Eighteenpence"</dd>
<dd>"Engraved by J &amp; C Walker."</dd>
<dd>"Sold by J. D. Potter, Agent for the Admiralty Charts, 31 Poultry."</dd>
<dd>Early Canadian nautical maps were referred to as "Bayfield charts" in honour of Henry Wolsey Bayfield who began in the early 1800s charting the waterways of Canada</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Saint Lawrence, Gulf of -- Navigation -- Maps.; Nova Scotia -- Navigation -- Maps.; Nautical charts -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of.; Nautical charts -- Nova Scotia.; Canada -- Maps.; McGill University Library Digitized Title; Bayfield Project; Nautical charts -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of; Nautical charts -- Nova Scotia; Nautical charts; Saint Lawrence, Gulf of -- Navigation -- Maps; Nova Scotia -- Navigation -- Maps; Canada -- Maps; Atlantic Ocean -- Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Canada; Nova Scotia</div>
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Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, issuing body</div>
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