Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22105

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    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.
    Associated place
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       > North America
          > United States
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