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Portolan grid construction. Illustration of the construction of the compass or rhumb line grid typical of portolan charts on the anonymous Genoese nautical chart held by the Library of Congress Washington DC Mediterraneanchartfourteenthcentury UTC Mediterraneanchartfourteenthcentury anonymous probably Genoan derivative work