Mississippi Sound and Approaches Dauphin Island to Cat Island

by Alabama, Mississippi

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare original coastal survey of the border between Mississippi and Alabama including the Mississippi Sound, Gulfport, Biloxi, Pascagoula, and a series of barrier islands: Cat Island, Ship Island, Horn Island, Petit Bois Island, Dauphin Island, and Island Aux Herbes. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to

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