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A new chart of the eastern straits to China drawn from the best authorities

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location_onIndonesia

Two maps of routes around the Flores and Banda seas—through the straits between the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Maluku Islands—towards China. Includes a rhumbline network—a web of lines to help plot routes—bathymetry (sea depth), shoals and reefs.

A sketch of the Birman Empire: from a Map of India extra Ganjem

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location_onCambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

This map from 1800 is by the Scottish cartographer Alexander Dalrymple, who was the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty. It documents the river systems of the Birman Empire (Myanmar) and modern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

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