Add MS 7085, f 3

Location: Terra del Fuego [Tierra del Fuego]

Date: [January 1769]

Scale: 5 inches = 20 leagues or one degree (1:875,520)Chart with inset plan of Success Bay and four coastal views (at top of sheet).

Title inscribed in framed box (left): A CHART OF THE S EAST PART OF TERRA DEL FUEGO INCLUDING STRAITS LE MAIRE AND PART OF STATEN LAND BY Lieutt. I. Cook Jany. 1769’.

Views titled:

1. ‘A View of Part of the NE Side of Terra del Fuego, taken from point A in the Chart’

2. ‘A View of Strait Le Maire, with part of Terra del Fuego and Staten Land, taken from the point B in the Chart’.

3. ‘A View of part of the S.W. side of Terra del Fuego, taken from the point C in the Chart’.

4. ‘A View of part of the Coast of Terra de Fuego from Cape Horn to Isle Evouts, taken from the Point D in the Chart’.

Includes key: ‘References to the Views. a. Cape St Diego b. C. St Vincent c. Sugar Loaf d. Middle Cape Staten Isd e. C. Sn Bartholomew f. Entrance Success Bay g. New Island h. C. Good Success i. Cape Horn k. So Pt Hermites Isles l. Hermites Isles m. Barnevelts isles n. Evouts Isles 1.2.3. Three Brothers’.

Main chart scale (lower left) labelled: ‘A Scale of 20 Leagues or one Degree’, i.e. 5 inches = 20 leagues or one degree (1:875,520).Inset plan scale labelled: ‘A Scale of one Mile’, i.e. 2 inches = 1 mile (1:36,480)

Attributed by Andrew David to Alexander Buchan, on grounds of similarity to other views drawn by him (e.g. British Library Add MS 15507, folios 8a, 9a, and 9b).

The engraving by T. Bowen and J. Gibson (published in John Hawkesworth, An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (1773) II, facing page 39) is based on this chart.