Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 55 W. Bar scales in statute and nautical miles from HNS72B onwards. Additional Places: New Brunswick. Contents Note: Sailing directions are included in the title, from HNS72D onwards. Plate changes: Shoals stippled and further soundings marked. Settlements added. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, settlements brown. Red/brown coastal convention. Page number '62' type-stamped overleaf.
There are nine variants of this chart in the collection: 72A. Lacks imprint. Top left border is incomplete. Some indication of land relief. Shoals shown in outline. Printed on LVG paper. 72B. Plate changes: Imprint June 19, 1776. Bar scales added and foreshore stippled. Other features: Printed on LVG paper. Border yellow. 72B*. Plate same as 72B. Other features: Printed on unwatermarked paper. Border yellow. 72C. Plate same as 72B. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Rivers and coast coloured blue. 72D. Plate changes: Title box drawn top left. 'Buctush' added above Cocagne. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, rivers and coast coloured blue. Page number '29' type-stamped top right. 72E. Plate changes: 'Survey'd &' prefixed to the imprint. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Page number '62' type-stamped overleaf. 72F. Plate changes: Shoals stippled and further soundings marked. Settlements added. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, settlements brown. Red/brown coastal convention. Page number '62' type-stamped overleaf. 72G. Plate changes: Imprint Feb 19, 1779. 'PL.62.' engraved top right. Other features: Border and settlements yellow; red/brown coastal convention. 72H. Plate changes: Imprint June 1 1781. Page number is now 'PL.35.' Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, land tinted brown, settlements tinted green and yellow. Red/brown coastal convention.