Map of the Mississippi River Delta
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 355mm
width (print): 355mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico on the southeastern coast of the United States. The city of New Orleans can be seen towards the centre of the map, just below Lake Pontchartrain.
Plate 43 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.43.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘COURS DU / FLEUVE SAINT LOUIS / depuis ses Embouchures / jusqu’a la Riviere d’Iberville / et Costes Voisines. / Echelle de Dix Lieues Communes.’ 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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