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No. 15. _A Part of Map of the Country Thirty Miles 

 Round the City of New York, Designed and Drawn 

 by I. H. Eddy, New Edition, Revised and Corrected by 

 W. Hooker and E. Blunt, New York, 1828. 



This map shows the New Ferry and Turnpike, how known as 

 Richmond Turnpike, as well as many names which have since 

 disappeared. 



The twin lights at Navesink Highlands are shown on this map, 

 and these Highlands are represented as being about 600 feet above 

 the sea level. The highest point however is only 269 feet above 

 the level of the sea, which is below a considerable area on Staten 

 Island where the maximum height is 413 feet. 



No. 16. Map of New York Bay and Harbour and the En- 

 virons, Scale 1/30000. United States Coast Survey. 

 Washington 1844-5. 



This is one of the earliest if not the earliest map of Staten 

 Island published by the United States Coast Survey. 



The surveys for this map were executed between 1835 anc ^ l &4°- 

 It shows the roads, buildings, etc., of that time, but its chief 

 value is clue to the fact that it is the earliest map to show the 

 shore line and the adjacent soundings v/ith great accuracy. On 

 this account the map is indispensable when making a study of 

 the changes going on in the shore line, shoals, and channels. This 

 map is in 6 sheets, 20 X 30 inches each. 1 



1 Copies of the maps described in this article are now on exhibition in 

 the Museum of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



