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| Keywords: 1866 U.S. Coast Survey Chart or Map of the Mississippi Sound - Western Part - Geographicus - MississippiSoundWest-uscs-1866.jpg This is a highly unusual and rarely seen 1860 U S Coast Survey chart or map of the western part of the Mississippi Sound Covers the coast of Mississippi roughly from St Joseph Island today's Grand Island and St Louis Bay eastward as far as Round Island and the mouth of the Pascagoula River Offers extraordinary detail throughout including sailing instructions notes on tides notes on winds identification of various light houses and buoys and literally thousands of depth soundings Includes St Louis Bay Biloxi Bay and the Pascagoula River What makes this chart so unusual is that it was never completed - at least not as planned Possibly stymied by the outbreak of the American Civil War the Western Chart was completed but the companion eastern chart to our knowledge does not exist The triangulation for this chart was completed by F H Gerdes S A Gilbert and J E Hilgard The Hydrography was completed by a party under the command of C P Patterson and B F Sands This chart was compiled under the supervision of A D Bache one of the most influential Superintendents in the history of the Coast Survey Created in 1860 but not published until after the Civil War the 1867 supplement to the 1866 edition of the Superintendent's Report 1860 dated Size in 42 32 object history credit line accession number MississippiSoundWest-uscs-1866 <i>Report of the Superintendant of the United States Coast Survey </i> Washington 1867 Supplement to the 1865 edition Geographicus-source PD-art United States Coast Survey maps | ||||
