Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22104

    Map of Pensacola Bay

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 170mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of Pensacola Bay at the western edge of Florida showing the canal and rivers that feed into the Gulf of Mexico. The city of Pensacola with its fort is visible towards the lower centre of the map.

    Plate 42 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.42.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘PLAN DE LA BAYE / DE PENSACOLA / dans la Floride / Echelle d’une Lieue Commune’.

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