<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Portolan chart of the West Indies</dc:title><dc:date>[approximately 1760]</dc:date><dc:language>spa</dc:language><dc:description>Title devised by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned and undated.</dc:description><dc:description>North oriented towards the left.</dc:description><dc:description>On Jamaica the name "Kiniston" (Kingston) has been added early on, presumably about 1695, soon after its foundation, and in Haiti the name St. Luiz at a later period.</dc:description><dc:description>In the corner there is a table of the Florida and Cuban cays with their locations on the map. On the Island of Jamaica is marked Pta. Portland, presumably named after the Earl of Portland, councillor for trade and navigation, who died in 1663, or his son, who was killed fighting the Dutch in the battle off the Texel in 1665.</dc:description><dc:description>Color: pen and ink with green and blue shading.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>