Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22070

    Map of Acadia

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 310mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the colony of Acadia in New France, showing parts of modern-day Canada including Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and the southeast corner of New Brunswick.

    Plate 26 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.26.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE / DE L’ACADIE / et Pays Voisins / Echelle / de Lieues communes de France.’ 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.
    Associated place
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