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This is the travel diary of an anonymous man who might have been a surveyor or land developer. He described the land he saw during his travels and meticulously recorded acreage and locations of trees. He also repeatedly mentioned "Huntsman's…

Poems, 1814-1817 including a long narrative entitled "The Lay of the Cumberland" and 13 other poems. Also contains a letter to the editor of the "Analectic Magazine," dated Bedford, October 1814 and a page of "Indian names." The author is identified…

Journals and memoranda of Andrew Porter on his surveys of the Pennsylvania boundary line.

Winthrop Sargent was governor of the Mississippi Territory. Surveys, maps, and drawings of land in the Northwest Territory, and some miscellaneous manuscripts of Winthrop Sargent.

This volume contains mathematical rules, 1754, for calculating longitude. Also contains an advertisement to mariners. Prepared for the Lords of the Admiralty.

A treatise on navigation and methods of calculating latitude and longitude, written by Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.

This collection includes business and personal letters of John Joseph Borie, of his wife Sophie, and of his sons and daughters and relatives in France. A large portion of the papers and documents relates to Santo Domingo, with letters from Toussaint…

This collection includes business and personal letters of John Joseph Borie, of his wife Sophie, and of his sons and daughters and relatives in France. A large portion of the papers and documents relates to Santo Domingo, with letters from Toussaint…

This collection includes business and personal letters of John Joseph Borie, of his wife Sophie, and of his sons and daughters and relatives in France. A large portion of the papers and documents relates to Santo Domingo, with letters from Toussaint…