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A plan of Port Royal in South Carolina

Metadata

Creator	Gascoigne, John
Date	[1773?]
Name on Item	survey'd by Capn. John Gascoigne ; engraved by Jefferys & Faden.
Publisher	[s.n.]
Scale	Scale 1:63,360
Language	English
Location	George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local)	Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects	Nautical charts--South Carolina--Port Royal Sound Port Royal Sound (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places	Beaufort (county) North and Central America Port Royal Sound South Carolina United States
Extent	1 map ; 62 x 58 cm, on sheet 85 x 65 cm.
Terms and License	No known copyright restrictions. This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
Notes	Depths shown by soundings. Includes explanation and index to natural features. "Latitude of Hilton Head ... Longitude from London ... variation of the compass ..." "These soundings shew the exact depth at low water on a common spring tide in a calm ..."