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Chart of the Gulf Stream annotated by Benjamin Franklin
A chart of the Gulf Stream by James Poupard, sculp. Appeared in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1786. Includes inset of North Atlantic and text in left margin "Remarks upon the navigation from Newfoundland to New-York, in order to avoid the Gulph Stream on one hand, and on the other the shoals that lie to the southward of Nantucket and of St. George's Banks," by Benjamin Franklin.
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