Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22054

    Maps of St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 320mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    A folio containing two maps with different scales and orientations. The upper map shows a section of the St. Lawrence River, centred on Lake Saint Pierre with Montreal visible towards the left and Quebec City shown on the right. The course of the river flows around the Island of Montreal, through the lake, past Quebec City and out into the North Atlantic Ocean.

    The lower map shows Lake Champlain, situated about 80km south of Montreal on the Richelieu River, a tributary of the St. Lawrence River. This lake is shown on a much smaller scale with the lake islands shown in detail. Two forts are also included on the map, Fort Chambly to the left and Fort Saint-Frédéric to the right.

    Plate 10 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.10.’ With a cartouche in the centre of the upper map, just above the dividing line: ‘PARTIE DU FLEUVE ST LAURENT / depuis Quebec jusqu au Lac St Francois. / Echelle de Douze Lieues Communes’. A second cartouche is present on the lower map, towards the right edge: ‘CARTE / DU LAC CHAMPLAIN / Echelle de Huit Lieues Communes’.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.

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