Coastal Survey of Matagorda Bay to Sabine Pass: Bache, 1854 117 Western Hemisphere by Gabriel Bodenehr

Western Hemisphere by Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder

Rumold Mercator based this map on his father's great world map of 1569

The huge Terra Australis is shown as a part of Tierra del Fuego

Elizabeth Gould

The tower at Magdalen College is an Oxford landmark

Coastal Survey of Matagorda Bay to Sabine Pass: Bache, 1854 117 Western Hemisphere by Gabriel BodenehrMap of the Texas coast stretching from Matagorda Bay to Sabine Pass. Includes triangulations superimposed on map, labeled by section number and date surveyed. Also includes a sub sketch showing the progress of the survey of the Rio Grande and vicinity. Surveyor, scientist, and pioneering oceanographer A. D. Bache (1806 1867) served as the 6th Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey. Born in Philadelphia, he came from a prominent political family, and