Plano del puerto de Sn. Francisco (1776)

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/12/07/plano-del-puerto-de-sn-francisco-situado-por-los-37-grs-53-mins-de-latitud-septentrional-1776/

 

The most wonderful nautical chart of San Francisco Bay is the very first one that was ever made, in 1776.

A manuscript map, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to José de Cañizares, a Spanish naval officer. Cañizares was an ensign on Juan Manuel de Ayala’s ship, the packet boat San Carlos, i.e. a transport.

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

Bet it took quite a while take all those soundings and just a long if not longer to draw the map.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Much of it has been filled in?  Similar to Boston, New York, and I imagine many other places.

[Pat Riot]

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[WOLFY]

neat,

here’s a surveyor’s map from the next century