Maritime observations
Subtitle: in a letter from Doctor Franklin, to Mr. Alphonsus Le Roy, member of several academies, at Paris
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44888
Publisher: Printed by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, in Market Street, three doors above the coffee-house
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Navigation
Notes: Caption title: No. XXXVIII. A letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin ... At sea, on board the London packet, Capt. Truxton, August 1785.

From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 2, with added title page.

Signatures: 2Q⁴(-2Q1) 2R-2T⁴.

Plate and map (of the Gulf Stream) engraved by James Poupard.

Map includes: Remarks upon the navigation from Newfoundland to New-York, in order to avoid the Gulph Stream. ... B. Franklin.

Bristol B6285

Shipton & Mooney 44888