Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22056

    Map of Detroit

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 320mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the Detroit River between Lake St. Claire and Lake Erie showing the area now occupied by the city of Detroit. A plan of the original settlement on the north bank of the river, Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, is shown at the lower right of the map.

    Plate 12 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.12.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘LA RIVIERE DU DÉTROIT / Depuis le Lac Sainte Claire / jusqu au Lac Erié / Echelle de Deux Lieues Communes’. A plan of Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit is included at the lower right: ‘PLAN DU FORT DU DÉTROIT / Echelle de Soixante Toises’.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > North America
          > United States
    <The World>
       > North America
          > Canada
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