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Selected papers presented to the conference on the history of cartography, greenwich, England, 1975

Nathaniel Blackmore's plaine chart of Nova Scotia: Isobaths in the open sea?

Pages 137-141 | Published online: 29 Jul 2008

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  • Cumming , W. P. 1974 . British Maps of Colonial America 10 Chicago The map was displayed as an illustration in the 2d Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures at the Newberry Library in 1970. The lectures have since been published in
  • Nathaniel Blackmore (1714/15), (manuscript) Title: ‘To the Rt. hon: the Lords Com rs. for trade and Plantacons &c This Plaine Chart of the Coasts on the Province of Nova Scotia et L'Acadia &c is Most humbly dedicated & presented by Nathaniel Blackmore Anno 1714/15.’ Public Record Office (P.R.O.) reference: CO. 700 Nova Scotia No. 4. Note : The date of the map should no doubt be given as 1715. Although we do not know when it was drawn, it was presented in January 1714/15. The present practice of beginning the New Year on 1 January would make it 1715.
  • ‘Nova Scotia, No. 4’, (Copied by C. Pettigrew, P.R.O., London, May 1913), National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada, VI/202–1715.
  • Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660–1815, Vol. 1, National Maritime Museum, MAPS, Ref. A1.
  • Memorandum from Cyprian Southack, 16 October 1710 in R.G.I, Vol. 7 1/2, Annapolis Papers, Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
  • Letters and Orders relating Affairs of Annapolis Royal, R.G.I, Vol. 8, No. 32, p. 70, Public Archives of Nova Scotia. See also Calendar of State Papers Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1710‐June 1711, P.R.O. No. 429.
  • Calendar of State Papers, Col. Series, America and West Indies, August 1714‐December 1715, HMSO, London, 1928, No. 176 and 176.i.
  • 1708/9 . Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations , February : 592 to March 1714/15, HMSO, London, 1925,
  • Journals of H.M.S. Oxford, Nat. Mar. Museum, Journal of Lt. Blackmore for period 28 January 1714/15 to 1 April 1716.
  • Log of H.M.S. Oxford, Capt. Charles Poole, Commander, from 31 March 1716 to 25 May 1717, P.R.O. Captains Logs, 4282, No. 6.
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  • Mitchell, op. cit., Map No. 23, National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada.
  • Moll , Herman . 1720 . A New Map of the North Parts of America . . . London
  • 1729 . Atlas Minor . . London ) and subsequent editions; the map A Description of the Bay of Fundy . . ., ascribed to Blackmore (Map Library, British Library, MAR. XII.17.) was probably produced by Moll.

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