A large and particular plan of Shegnekto Bay, and the circumjacent country, with the forts and settlements of the French 'till dispossess'd by the English in June 1755

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A large and particular plan of Shegnekto Bay, and the circumjacent country, with the forts and settlements of the French 'till dispossess'd by the English in June 1755
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Title:
A large and particular plan of Shegnekto Bay, and the circumjacent country, with the forts and settlements of the French 'till dispossess'd by the English in June 1755
Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771
Name on Item:
drawn on the spot by an officer.
Date:
1755
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Fortification--Nova Scotia--Chignecto Isthmus--Maps--Early works to 1800
Chignecto Isthmus (N.B. and N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Chignecto Isthmus
Extent:
1 map ; 34 x 58 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:
[London] : Thos. Jefferys
Scale:
Scale [ca 1:102,000]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Oriented with north toward the upper right.
Appears in Jefferys' General topography of North America and the West Indies. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ... and Thomas Jefferys, 1768.
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Identifier:
06_01_008506