Contributions to the geology of Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket: manuscript

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  Geology of Long Island: manuscript

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  This manuscript, written while Merrill was attending the Columbia School of Mines, discusses the geology of Long Island. It includes hand drawn and hand colored plates.

  mssHM 70718

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  [Chart of Nantucket Island and the eastern half of Martha's Vineyard]

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  Title supplied by cataloger. Kashnor notes, "A rare chart, giving a fine map of Nantucket Island and part of Martha's Vineyard. It was issued at a critical time during the American Revolution, when the passage would be resorted to in case of Boston Harbour not being available." Map contains sailing and anchoring instructions and fine map of Chapaquidick Island. Place of publication: Des Barres was known to work in London. Folded once.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial & hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, statute & nautical. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis over LCV J Bates. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 100 19.

  093:100 M

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  Old colony line via Middleboro' and Woods Holl, to Oak Bluffs Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket : the famous seaside resorts of America ... Boston, June 23, 1877

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  Image of a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive and tender labeled "Old Colony" on railroad tracks next to a dock with waiting passengers and a horse-drawn wagon, and a sailboat and steamboat, the Island Home, in the water, centered in a broadside with text promoting the Old Colony Railroad route to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, with printed timetables and promotional text, and a bottom center wood-engraved map of New England with railroad routes.

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