PLAN OF SANDY HOOK 28. Miles from New York

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1757

Surveyed April 15.th 1757. Shewing the best Channel for Sailing to New York, with it's Banks and Depths of Water.

Scale approximatley 1:12,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Sandy Hook (N.J.)--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Monmouth (county)
• New Jersey
• North and Central America
• Sandy Hook
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 72 x 52 cm

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• Shows sounding depths.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Title at lower right with a "Scale of 1000. Feet to an Inch".
• Illustrated with a decorative compass rose and four sailing vessels.
• Titled "A drawn Plan of Sandy Hook, twenty-eight Miles from New York, surveyed April 15th, 1757" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled 'A "plan of Sandy Hook, 28 miles from New York, surveyed April 15th, 1757: shewing the best channel for sailing to New York, with its banks and depths of water;" drawn on a scale of 1000 feet to an inch: 2 f. 4 in. x 1 f. 8 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.