CARTE DU COURS DE L'OHIO OU DE LA BELLE RIVIERE : Depuis sa Source jusqu'a sa Jonction avec celle d'Ouabache, avec les pays les plus voisins

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[ca. 1755]

[Jacques Nicolas Bellin]

Scale approximately 1:1,100,000

French

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Erie, Lake--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Ohio River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Wabash River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Erie, Lake--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Erie, Lake
• North and Central America
• Ohio River
• United States
• Wabash River

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 43 x 66 cm

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• Date and cartographer attribution from comparison with manuscript map in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France which is signed and dated by Bellin - see GE C-5183. Detail on the two maps differs slightly and this example, unsigned and undated by the cartographer, has a more elaborate and decorative title cartouche.
• Relief is shown pictorially.
• Shows decorative title cartouche at upper left containing the scale bar, "Echelle de Lieues Communes de France".
• Shows latitude and longitude, "Longitude Occidentale du Meridien de Paris".
• Shows forts.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,714.1. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "1" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 30/93" in pencil at lower left and "A 54" at lower right. Laid on linen. Label (?) to verso showing "DRAWER 3 SECTION 2" obscured by linen.