Course of the St. Lawrence River
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 350mm
width (print): 350mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Quebec showing the course of the St. Lawrence River that runs from its gulf in the North Atlantic Ocean down to Quebec City, shown at the southwest of the map. The largest lake in Quebec, Lake Mistassini, is also visible towards the northwest corner of the map.
Plate 5 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.5.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘COURS / DE FLEUVE DE / SAINT LAURENT / depuis / la Mer jus qu’ a Quebec. / Echelle de Vingt cinq Lieues Comunes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 5 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.5.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘COURS / DE FLEUVE DE / SAINT LAURENT / depuis / la Mer jus qu’ a Quebec. / Echelle de Vingt cinq Lieues Comunes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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