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Science 8 February 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4431, pp. 643 - 645
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4431.643
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Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger's First Printed Chart of the Gulf Stream

PHILIP L. RICHARDSON 1

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

A print of the Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger 1769-1770 chart of the Gulf Stream, all copies of which have been "lost" for nearly 200 years, was found in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. This is the first chart of the Gulf Stream and continues today to be a good summary of its strength, course, and breadth.

Submitted on August 28, 1979
Revised on November 5, 1979

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