Whale Branch Passage between Coosaw and Broad Rivers

by South Carolina

$250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare original survey of coastal South Carolina including Beaufort, Port Arthur Island, Lady's Island, and the Broad and Coosaw Rivers. 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 survey the U.S. coastline, create nautical charts of the coast, and help increase maritime safety since its founding, and has often

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