Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Exploring Expedition Charts (April, 1846)

Source: The Polynesian. Honolulu: April 4, 1846

There is now at the custom house in this city, for sale by the collector, also at the navy department, Washington, a number of sets of seventy distinct charts. 

Chart of the Antarctic Continent by the U.S. Exploring Expedition. 

In about two weeks there will be added to this number forty-nine charts more, which will make one hundred and nineteen distinct charts on fifty-four sheets, embracing the most important surveys of the Pacific ocean. 

The price marked on the sheet is thirteen and twenty-five cents each, only the cost of paper and printing. 

All the remaining charts of the surveys of the exploring expedition will be engraved and printed during the winter, and will make in all two hundred and eight distinct charts on ninety sheets. We have seen most of the charts already out; but this is a small matter in comparison with the vast amount of geographical and topographical information which they contain. 

Whoever examines these maps, will see that the exploring expedition, during their three years absence from the country, had a plenty of work to do. 

The soundings and other observations at various localities, are, we had almost said, innumerable. We were particularly interested with the charts and profiles of the Antarctic Continent, the coast of Oregon, the mouth of the Columbia River, (which was explored and sounded for one hundred miles) and some of the gouts of islands in the Pacific. 

To navigators especially, these charts will be invaluable, and they are furnished as a very low price-the object being to diffuse information, and not to make money. -N.Y. J. Com. 


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