Notes and Sailing Directions for Portsmouth Harbor
This particular example of Vancouver's map was issued as platse No's 29 et 30 in the highly desirable 1799 French edition of Vancouver's Atlas
Second volume is divided into 15 chapters
by La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
and topographical features (hachures)
Drake's Bay, California Egypt Notes and Sailing Directions forA very nice chart of Drake's Bay, California, showing numerous soundings, near shore reefs, and excellent topography, vegetation, canyons, and other features of the area. Heavy paper, separate issue. A note mentions the Telegraph Signal Station at Point Reyes Light, which "will transmit by telegraph messages signaled by the International Code from passing vessels."From a Trigonometrical Survey under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the