Detail View: JCB Map Collection: A Chart of The Gulf Stream
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Accession Number:
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6343
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File Name:
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6343-1
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Call number:
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DC A512t 1771 2
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Map title:
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A Chart of The Gulf Stream
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Place of Publication:
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[Philadelphia]
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Publisher:
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[Robert Aitken]
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Publication date:
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[1786]
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Map size height:
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20.6 cm.
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Map size width:
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25.6 cm.
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Item description:
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fold-out engraved map; following p. 316
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Geographical description:
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A chart of the Gulf Stream showing the eastern coast of North America with an inset map of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Cartographic elements include sea banks or shoals, lines of longitude and latitude, compass rose, and direction and speed of the Gulf Stream. Decorative cartouche shows Neptune with a trident and a Quaker gentleman [Benjamin Franklin?] with ships.
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Source title:
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. Volume II
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Source place:
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Philadelphia: 1786
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References:
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De Vorsey, L. "Pioneering charting of the Gulf Stream," Imago Mundi, 28 (1976), 105-120
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Geographic Area:
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North America
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Historical notes:
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Benjamin Franklin used this illustration for an article on maritime observations. As Deputy Postmaster General for the American colonies in London, Franklin noted that mail packets sailing westward from England to America took longer than eastward sailing packets. Drawing upon Nantucket whalemen's knowledge, principally that of Timothy Folger, and that of William de Brahm, the Surveyor General for the Southern District of North America, Franklin first drew a map of the stream in 1768. This map published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society is one of several versions of Franklin's map.
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Normalized date:
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1786
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Creator:
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James Poupard
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