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Item Information

Title:
[Lake Ontario]
Description:
Untitled sketch map of Lake Ontario with two inset maps showing Fort Niagara and environs and Fort Cataraqui (also known as Fort Frontenac in present-day Kingston, Ontario) and environs.
Cartographer:
D. B.
Former owner:
Haldimand, Frederick, Sir, 1718-1791
Name on Item:
D.B. Crownpoint July 31.st 1760.
Date:
1760
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Frontenac (Ont. : Fort)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Old Fort Niagara (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Oswego (Oswego, N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Ontario (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Canada > Kingston
Oswego (county) > Fort Oswego
Oswego (county) > Fort Ontario
Niagara (county) > Old Fort Niagara
Ontario, Lake
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 38 x 46 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:
[Crown Point] : D.B. Crownpoint,.
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002034118
Notes:
Sounding depths are given.
Shows forts at "NIAGARA", "Toronto", "CHOAGEN" (Oswego, New York - the two forts shown were also later known as Fort Oswego and Fort Ontario, on opposing sides of the river) and Frontenac".
Drawn in black ink. With (later?) additions in brown ink.
Inset at lower left with a map showing Fort Niagara and environs. Sounding depths are given. A scale of lieu is shown (scale approximately 1:60,000?).
Inset at lower right with a map showing the fort at Cataraqui and environs. Includes a scale of lieu (scale approximately 1:55,000?).
Copy at Add Ms 21,686.32. Bound in a volume. Manuscript addition of "32" in pencil in margin at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. Evidence of old folds. Red stamp of British Museum to verso.
Notes (date):
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