Notes on the historical hydrography of the Handkerchief Shoal in the Bahamas.
By: By William H. Tillinghast. Republished from the Bulletin of Harvard university [no. 20, Oct. 1881]
Publisher: University press: J. Wilson and son
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Mouchoir Bank, Bahamas -- Maps -- Bibliography.; West Indies -- Maps -- Bibliography.
Genres: Bibliography.
Notes: Cover-title.
"Taken mainly from maps in the Harvard college library."
"It was thought that an examination of old maps might reveal a change in the condition of the shoals since the time of the discovery of the Bahamas, which might be of importance in the disputed question of the Landfall of Columbus ... Results are not such as were anticipated."