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Repository	North Carolina State Archives
Title	...Chart of his Majesties Province of North Carolina...
Alternative Title	To His Grace Thomas Hollis Pelham Duke of Newcastle Principal Secretary of State and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, &c. This Chart of his Majesties Province of North Carolina With a full & exact description of the Sea-coast, Latitudes, Capes, remarkable Inlets, Bars, Channels, Rivers, Creeks, Shoals, depth of Water, Ebbing & Flowing of the Tides, the generally Winds Setting of the Currents, Counties, Precints, Towns, Plantations, and leading Marks, with directions for all the navigable Inlets; are Carefully laid down and humbly dedicated, by Your Grace's most humble, most dutiful, & most Obedient Servant, James Wimble.
Date Published	1738
Date Depicted	1738
Creator - Individual	Wimble, James, ca. 1697-ca. 1744.
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	William Mount and Thomas Page
Caption	Under title: "Engrav'd and Publish's according to Act of Parliament Anno 1738." At lower right: "Sold by W. Mount & T. Page on Tower hill and J. Hawkins in Fenchurch street London, and the Author at Boston in New England. I Mynde."
Abstract	Depicts the North Carolina coast with some inland towns, landowners, and rivers. An "Indian Town" is shown near Edenton. Depths shown by soundings. Includes rhumb lines and several engravings of ships. At lower right are printed detailed "Directions to Sail into all the Navigable Inlets in this Chart."
Reference	William P. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, Third Edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Map 394.;Cumming, William P. "Wimble's Maps and the Colonial Cartography of the North Carolina Coast" The North Carolina Historical Review 46 (1969-70), pp. 1-18.
Type	Nautical
Details	Decorative Illustrations Landowners Native American Settlements Soundings
Subject - Geographic	North Carolina -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Subject - Topical	Indians of North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (tgm)	Ships Fish
Places Depicted	North Carolina
West Longitude	-75
East Longitude	-78.116667
North Latitude	36.666667
South Latitude	34.333333
Scale	1:570,240
Size	56 x 93 cm.
Medium	Paper
Format	Maps
Language	English
Digital Collection	North Carolina Maps
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sponsor	North Carolina Maps is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
Call Number	MC.150.1738w

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