[Sketch map of the St Lawrence River at River Toniata]

Laforce, René-Hippolyte, 1728-1802

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1760]

[René-Hippolyte Laforce]

Scale approximately 1:175,000

French

British Library

British Library Collection

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

• North and Central America
• Saint Lawrence River

1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 22 x 33 cm

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• Attribution to Laforce from previous British Library cataloguing (see citation).
• Date from depiction of fort "La presentation" (see Add Ms 57,707.7.) which was renamed by the British in 1760.
• Names "R. Toniata", "Les isles de Toniata" and "L'anglais" only. River Toniata is presumed to be present-day Jones Creek, a tributary of the Saint Lawrence River, near Grenadier Island.
• Shows scale at lower centre, "ECHELLE DE 10 LIEUES" (10 previously read 20, corrected by a later hand?).
• Oriented with north to the bottom of the map (?).
• Compare also Add Ms 57,707.5. and Add Ms 57,707.7., and Add Ms 57,707.9. and Add Ms 57,707.10.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,707.6. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXII. Shows manuscript addition of "6" in pencil at lower and upper right. Shows "A 20" in pencil at lower left and "A 28/48B" at upper left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "23a". Manuscript addition to verso in pencil shows "Drawer 28 Sec 2". Blue label to verso shows "A 28/48B".