[Sketch map of the St Lawrence River at River Toniata]

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[Sketch map of the St Lawrence River at River Toniata]
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Item Information

Title:
[Sketch map of the St Lawrence River at River Toniata]
Cartographer:
Laforce, René-Hippolyte, 1728-1802
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[1760]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Rivers--Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Saint Lawrence River
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 22 x 33 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] : [René-Hippolyte Laforce]
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:175,000
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999737
Notes:
Attribution to Laforce from previous British Library cataloguing (see citation).
Date from depiction of fort "La presentation" (see Add Ms 57,707.7.) which was renamed by the British in 1760.
Names "R. Toniata", "Les isles de Toniata" and "L'anglais" only. River Toniata is presumed to be present-day Jones Creek, a tributary of the Saint Lawrence River, near Grenadier Island.
Shows scale at lower centre, "ECHELLE DE 10 LIEUES" (10 previously read 20, corrected by a later hand?).
Oriented with north to the bottom of the map (?).
Compare also Add Ms 57,707.5. and Add Ms 57,707.7., and Add Ms 57,707.9. and Add Ms 57,707.10.
Copy at Add Ms 57,707.6. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXII. Shows manuscript addition of "6" in pencil at lower and upper right. Shows "A 20" in pencil at lower left and "A 28/48B" at upper left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "23a". Manuscript addition to verso in pencil shows "Drawer 28 Sec 2". Blue label to verso shows "A 28/48B".
Notes (date):
9999
This date is inferred.