Historic Map : U.S. Coast Survey Map or Chart of Cape May, New Jersey and Isle of Wight, Maryland (Delaware Ba, 1860, Vintage Wall Art

This is a c.1860 U.S. Coast Survey chart of the coast of New Jersey's Cape may to Isle of Wight in Maryland. It depicts part of the Atlantic Ocean near the mouth of the Delaware Bay and extends from Turtle Gut inlet south to Assawoman Bay, including Cape May, Cold Spring and Cape Henlopen. An inset in the lower features Delaware breakwater. Nautically this map offers a wealth of practical information for the Mariner, including countless depth soundings

This map was compiled under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States and one of the most influential American cartographers of the 19th century.