A Plan of the RIVER S.T LAURENCE from Lake Ontario to the Island Orleans


A Plan of the RIVER S.T LAURENCE from Lake Ontario to the Island Orleans
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Item Information

Title:
A Plan of the RIVER S.T LAURENCE from Lake Ontario to the Island Orleans
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[ca. 1759]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Saint Lawrence River
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink over pencil ; 44 x 55 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified]
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:622,000
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999734
Notes:
Date from forts shown on map - names "Presentation Fort Abbe Picquet". Fort La Presentation was captured and renamed Fort Oswegatchie by the British in 1760.
Other forts named include "Frontenanc", and "Chambli", "St John" and "St Therese" on the Richelieu River.
Shows coastal and river outline only, no interior geography is shown.
shows title at upper left with a "Scale of English & French Marine Leagues 20 in a degree" below.
Copy at Add Ms 57,704.5. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "5" in pencil at upper right and lower right. Shows manuscript addition of "A 1" in pencil at lower right. Shows manuscript addition of "A 28/46" in pencil at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "21". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Blue label shows "A 28/46". Illegible watermark to paper.
Notes (date):
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