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    Atlantic Neptune Chart of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, c. 1777

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    One of a series of charts surveyed and drawn by Joseph F.W. Des Barres for the British Admiralty as part of the General Survey of North America undertaken between 1764 and 1779. Des Barres was responsible for surveying the coastline of Nova Scotia, for which this chart was probably drawn in 1771.

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    Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824

    Chart of Passamaquoddy Bay and Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston.

    Chart of Dennys Bay, J.F.W. Des Barres, London 1777; Detail of a Chart of Passamaquoddy Bay by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, from the Atlantic Neptune, published in London in 1777, probably surveyed around 1771.
    Chart of Passamaquoddy Bay and Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, from The Atlantic Neptune, J.F.W. Des Barres,London, 1777.; Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.