Portsmouth Island to Beaufort, Including Cape Lookout Shoals

by North Carolina

$375 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare original coastal survey of the Outer Banks region of North Carolina including Beaufort, Atlantic Beach, Shackelford Banks, Cape Lookout, Cedar Island, Hog Island, and an inset depiction of Lookout Bight. 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

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