Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22066

    Map of Île-Royale

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 305mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of Île-Royale, a region now part of Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. The two large islands shown on the map are Isle Royale, now Cape Breton Island, and Isle Saint Jean, now Prince Edward Island.

    Plate 22 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.22.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘L’ISLE ROYALE / Située de l’Entrée du Golphe / de Saint Laurent / Echelle de Dix Lieues Communes.’ The framing scale is in French nautical leagues 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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