Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22049

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    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.
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