A PLAN & SURVEY of the Town and Harbour of LOUISBOURG : the harbour by Cap Darell & the Town & Batteries by Cap Bastide Engineer

Barker, John

Bastide, John Henry, approximately 1700-1770

Durell, Philip, -1766

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

1748

JOHN BARKER DELIN 1748 No. 32.

Scale approximately 1:15,300

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Nova Scotia--Louisbourg--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Nova Scotia--Louisbourg--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--History--Siege, 1745--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

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• Louisbourg
• North and Central America
• Nova Scotia

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour, 41 x 61 cm

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• Relief shown pictorially and by shading.
• Sounding depths are given.
• Shows title at upper centre.
• Shows lettered key (A-Z) at lower right.
• Shows a "Scale of an English MILE" at lower right.
• Shows "JOHN BARKER DELIN 1748 No. 32" in a semi-circle at lower centre. Is this the same John Barker responsible for a plan of Woolwich in 1749 (see Maps K.Top.17.21.), thus suggesting the map was produced (copied) in London?
• Compare other maps of Louisbourg linked to Bastide in the R.U.S.I. collection (Add Ms 57,702.8 / Add Ms 57,702.9 / Add Ms 57,702.10 / Add Ms 57.702.11.).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,702.12. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXVII. Shows red stamp of R.U.S.I. in margin at upper centre. Shows manuscript addition of "A 28/72" in pencil at lower left. Shows manuscript addition of "C 16" in pencil at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "16". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 28/72". Manuscript addition of "12" to verso in pencil.