[Part of the Island of Orleans and the Saint Lawrence River]

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[Part of the Island of Orleans and the Saint Lawrence River]
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Item Information

Title:
[Part of the Island of Orleans and the Saint Lawrence River]
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[1760–1770]
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 with watercolour ; 34 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:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified]
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:81,000
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999734
Notes:
Date range from 1760-1761 Survey of Canada and 1766-1770 Survey of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River with the Island of Orleans being surveyed by Samuel Holland (Hornsby, Stephen J. Surveyors of Empire, page 60, figure 2.7).
Compare Add Ms 57,704.3. for a map of the Coudres Island by the same hand as this map.
Sounding depths are given.
Shows a "Scale of three Leagues" at upper right.
Shows coastal outline only, no interior geography is shown.
Title from name given within island.
Shows a decorative fleur de lys at upper left orienting north to the top of the map.
Includes a sketched coastal profile (in ink) in the margin at lower left.
Copy at Add Ms 57,704.4. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "15" in pencil at upper right with an additional "4". Shows manuscript addition of "A 58" in pencil at lower right. Shows manuscript addition of "A 28/52" in pencil at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "28". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Manuscript annotation to verso in pencil shows "15". Paper watermark shows fleur de lys within a shield with "LVG" below.
Notes (date):
9999
This date is inferred.