Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22069

    Map of St. Ann’s Bay

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jean-Baptiste Croisey (1740 - 1810, French) , Engraver
    After
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 315mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the harbour and bay area near Fort Sainte Anne on the northeast coast of Cape Breton Island. The fort itself is located towards the centre of the map, opposite a long sandspit on the other side of the harbour.

    Plate 25 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.25.’ With a chart lower left: ‘BAYE STE. ANNE / on LE PORT DAUPHIN / dans l’Isle Royale.’ Inscribed below: ‘Croisey Sculp.’ ‘Voyez la carte de l’Isle Royale No. 22.’

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