. Fig. 5. Fildes' Chart: taken from Chart of South Shetland published by R. H. Laurie in 1831. shows no original work, the place names and corrections to the coast-line having been taken bodily from Weddell's map and applied to Powell's unfinished chart of 1822. Although Fildes follows Weddell erroneously in splitting Powell Island into two (see p. 311), leaving both parts, however, unnamed, he notes that the positions recorded in Weddell's book do not agree with those of his chart, and accordingly opposite Cape Dundas the following legend appears: "Placed by Captn. Weddell in his descrip
. Fig. 5. Fildes' Chart: taken from Chart of South Shetland published by R. H. Laurie in 1831. shows no original work, the place names and corrections to the coast-line having been taken bodily from Weddell's map and applied to Powell's unfinished chart of 1822. Although Fildes follows Weddell erroneously in splitting Powell Island into two (see p. 311), leaving both parts, however, unnamed, he notes that the positions recorded in Weddell's book do not agree with those of his chart, and accordingly opposite Cape Dundas the following legend appears: "Placed by Captn. Weddell in his description in lat. 60° 46I' and long. 44° 35' 45". But, in his chart, in lat. 60° 53J' and long. 44° 30'." 1 This chart appears in the second edition of Powell's Chart of South Shetland, including Coronation Island, etc., which was published by R. H. Laurie in 1831.
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