Accurate mensuration of the Falls of Niagara : manuscript copy of a document : Niagara, New York, 1789 Dec. 8.

Record ID: 
352989
Accession number: 
MA 698.1
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.9 cm
Notes: 

The original survey was made by "Mr. Ellicott, Surveyor General to the States of America."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward, Duke of Kent to General Wetherall. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.

Summary: 

Being a fair copy of a report from 1789 of various measurements at various heights of the Falls; containing the addition of the measurement of various distances along the river which is dated "Niagara, 26th Aug. 1798[?]."

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.