Easy Tycoon

Chapter 58 Sheepskin Navigation Chart

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In fact, what attracted Yang Jing was not the piles of second-hand books on the booth, but the old-looking maps hanging on the brackets of the booth.

Yang Jing leaned over and carefully looked at these old-looking maps.

The owner of the stall was busy talking with another customer. When he saw Yang Jing approaching, he just greeted him and continued talking with that customer. Yang Jing was also happy that no one would disturb him.

There are seven maps in total, all of which are well protected by plastic packaging.

This is also a common way for flea market stall owners to protect some fragile things.A map is a piece of paper, and it will be damaged if you don't pay attention, so it is not surprising that the stall owner used this method to protect these few old-looking maps.

The "youngest" of these seven maps is also over a hundred years old. It is a map from the First World War, and this map is obviously a military map from a command of the Allied Powers.

Yang Jing took out a magnifying glass from his pocket, which he bought in the shop next to the hotel after a full meal last night.

I put the magnifying glass in the lower right corner of the map, and I saw the source of this map.

This is a large-scale map of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Allied Powers during the First World War. It clearly marked some military deployments near Plovdiv, an important town in central Bulgaria at that time, with pens of different colors.

Obviously, this map is a military map when the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Allied Powers, and the Allied Powers fought near Plovdiv.

If such a map were placed in Huaxia, it would probably be regarded as an incredible cultural relic.But in Europe and the United States, such a map can't be said to be a bad street, at least there are definitely many.Especially this kind of local military combat map that only involves one place, the value is even less high.

Yang Jing shook his head slightly, and sentenced to death for this map.Anyway, he didn't have the intention to collect this map, and he was not a war enthusiast, so he really didn't like this kind of bloody map.

The second map is a map of the United States at the end of the [-]th century, which is of little collection value, PASS.

The Chapter 3 map is also a map from the United States, but earlier in time. This map was also PASSed by Yang Jing without hesitation.

The fourth map aroused Yang Jing's interest.

Strictly speaking, this map is not a map, but a nautical chart, but the nautical drawing is very rough, and Yang Jing can barely make out that this nautical chart should be the North Atlantic Ocean and parts of the United States and Canada. Nautical charts off the east coast.

This nautical chart is not made of paper, but seems to be made of the legendary sheepskin, but because it is wrapped in plastic, Yang Jing cannot confirm the material of this nautical chart.

From this nautical chart that has become somewhat blurred, the east coasts of the United States and Canada can be barely distinguished. Of course, Greenland, Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean, and Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada can still be seen.

Moreover, this nautical chart does not seem to be a complete nautical chart, but more like a part torn from a larger nautical chart.Because at the bottom of the nautical chart, which is close to the Bermuda Islands, the map shows a torn ripple, and at the top, almost half of Greenland is also torn apart.

Obviously, this nautical chart should originally belong to a relatively large and complete nautical chart, but for some unknown reason, this part was torn off.

What attracted Yang Jing the most was not the raw materials of this nautical chart, nor the history of this nautical chart, but the clear locations and a broken route marked on this nautical chart.

On this map, there are very few places indicated. Apart from Greenland and Newfoundland, there are only two places, Boston and New York. Even Iceland is not specifically marked on this map, but Just the shape of an island.

Needless to say, Boston and New York are the cities with the longest history even if you look at the entire United States.And this map should be a hand-painted nautical chart in the early eighteenth century. It is not surprising that these two famous cities are on it.

In the eighteenth century, New York and Boston were undoubtedly important port cities on the east coast of North America, and most of the merchant ships traveling between Europe and North America arrived at these two cities. Routes from Europe to North America.

In addition, there are some routes that start from New York and Boston and extend south, which is obviously the route to the Caribbean.

And there are some that extend northward from these two cities. These routes go north along the east coast of North America, pass through Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and then turn east, across the North Atlantic to Europe, This is the North Atlantic route.

In fact, in the eighteenth century there were already several North Atlantic shipping routes.Although the North Atlantic is relatively stormy, it is the shortest distance from Europe to North America. Therefore, in the [-]th and [-]th centuries, many routes from Europe to North America took the North Atlantic.

For example, the most famous Titanic took the North Atlantic route on its maiden voyage. As a result, the big ship was too unfortunate. It encountered an iceberg on the way, and then sank directly in the deep sea of ​​more than 4000 meters in the North Atlantic Ocean.

These routes seem to be all right, except for the one that starts from Boston and goes northward. After arriving in Newfoundland, it does not turn eastward but continues northward along the east coast of North America, passing through the Labrador Sea and Davis Strait sails northwards.

That route was cut off after reaching Davis Strait.

Although it is impossible to know the specific destination of this route, this route is really strange.

You must know that even in modern times when the navigation industry is extremely developed, except for some fixed routes and scientific research ships, there are very few commercial ships that take this Arctic route, let alone the sailing ships of the eighteenth century. age.

In those days, it was easy to talk about going through the Davis Strait in summer, but it was just courting death if you went there in spring, autumn or winter.

But why is there such a strange route on this nautical chart?
What puzzled Yang Jing the most was that in the [-]th century, when the navies of the European powers drew their nautical charts, they basically began to use special paper to draw them. As far as the navy is concerned, it is almost extinct.

And in that era, the only ones who insisted on using sheepskin to draw nautical charts, except for a very small number of private merchant ships, were the pirates who roamed the world.
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(End of this chapter)