Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22067

    Map of Louisbourg Harbour

    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 Louisbourg Harbour on the southeast coast of what is now Cape Breton Island in the North Atlantic Ocean. The fortifications around the town of Louisbourg are clearly shown, as well as the harbour lighthouse on the opposite side of the bay.

    Plate 23 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.23.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PORT DE / LOUISBOURG / dans l’Isle Royale. / Echelle de Six Cent Toises.’ Inscribed below: ‘Voyez la Carte de l’Isle Royale N. 22.’

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