A CHART of the FRENCH COAST from Port Louis to the Mouth of the Loire; exhibiting Bell Isle, Quiberon Bay, and the Isle of Dumet where Sr. Edw'd Hawke defeated the French Fleet Nov'r 20, 1759

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Title: CHART of the FRENCH COAST from Port Louis to the Mouth of the Loire; exhibiting Bell Isle, Quiberon Bay, and the Isle of Dumet where Sr. Edw'd Hawke defeated the French Fleet Nov'r 20, 1759
Author, etc.: R.W. Seale
Description: A chart of the coast of Brittany, including the mouth of the Loire, where Nantes, France's largest port at the time, lay only a few kilometres up river. Soundings, sandbanks, rocks/hazards, and rhumb lines emanating from an off-page compass rose at the mouth of the harbour are present to aid marine navigation. Some trees and grassland are shown to represent land features. As a chart there is extensive annotation of shore features; on land Questembert is labelled Quitamber. A Fluer de Lis in centered at bottom placing scale.
General Notes: There is no scale bar for the chart, and the graticule uses London for the prime meridian; both the scale and coordinates were calculated using the map's graticule.
Publisher: John Hinton
Place of Publication: London
Date: 1759
Language: English
Extent: 1 map ; 10 x 17 cm
Type of Material: maps
Continent: Europe
Country: France
Region: Pays de la Loire
Brittany
Coordinates: -3.563; -2.131; 47.167; 47.495
Scale: 1:650,000
Projection: Unstated; large scale map, likely Mercator to preserve rhumb instead of a simple portolan.
Collection: W. K. Morrison Special Collection
Inventory #: WKM-J-282
Location: Bookcase
Related Title: Universal Magazine
Related Title cont'd: v. 25 December 1759, opposite pg. 313.
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: John Hinton
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