Map of the Great Lakes
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 335mm
width (print): 335mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Great Lakes region of North America, showing all five lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. The lakes are described here as the Great Lakes of Canada, but now span the Canada–United States border. The great waterfall at Niagara can be seen towards the southwest of the map, with the city of Detroit also shown in the south, further towards the centre. The Mississippi river can be seen at the western edge of the map.
Plate 6 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.6.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘CARTE / DES CINQ GRANDS LACS / DU CANADA / Echelle de Cinquante Lieues Communes’. 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 6 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.6.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘CARTE / DES CINQ GRANDS LACS / DU CANADA / Echelle de Cinquante Lieues Communes’. 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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