Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22103

    Map of Northwest Florida

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 340mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the coast of Northwest Florida, showing the bays and rivers that lead into the Gulf of Mexico. A number of towns are also shown towards the eastern edge of the map. This salient coastal region is often referred to as the Florida panhandle.

    Plate 41 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.41.’ With a cartouche lower centre: ‘CARTE / DE LA COSTE DE LA FLORIDE / depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu’aux / Cayes de St. Martin. / Echelle de Lieues com̃unes’. 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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