Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22106

    Map of the Mouth of the Mississippi River

    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 the mouth of the Mississippi River, at the southern tip of the state of Louisiana. The map shows the point at which the river divides and flows out into the Gulf of Mexico.

    Plate 44 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.44.’ With a cartouche lower right ‘EMBOUCHURES / DU FLEUVE ST. LOUIS / ou / MISSISSIPI / Echelle de Huit Cent Toises.’

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