A Plan of the RIVER S.T LAURENCE from Lake Ontario to the Island Orleans

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[ca. 1759]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:622,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• North and Central America
• Saint Lawrence River

1 map : manuscript pen and ink over pencil ; 44 x 55 cm

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• Date from forts shown on map - names "Presentation Fort Abbe Picquet". Fort La Presentation was captured and renamed Fort Oswegatchie by the British in 1760.
• Other forts named include "Frontenanc", and "Chambli", "St John" and "St Therese" on the Richelieu River.
• Shows coastal and river outline only, no interior geography is shown.
• shows title at upper left with a "Scale of English & French Marine Leagues 20 in a degree" below.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,704.5. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "5" in pencil at upper right and lower right. Shows manuscript addition of "A 1" in pencil at lower right. Shows manuscript addition of "A 28/46" in pencil at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "21". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Blue label shows "A 28/46". Illegible watermark to paper.