[A map of the southern part of the Lake Champlain, from "Tienderoga fort" to Crown Point]

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1759

Scale approximately 1:14,400

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Champlain, Lake--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Crown Point (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Champlain, Lake
• Essex (county)
• Fort Ticonderoga
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map on 8 sheets : joined and laid on linen, manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 50 x 179 cm

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• Previous British Library cataloguing has attributed a date of about 1758. The depiction of two forts at Crown Point (one in outline only and drawn with canons) suggests a later date of about 1759 after the destruction of Fort Saint-Frédéric.
• Relief is shown by shading.
• With a scale of 400 yards to one inch shown along the bottom of the map.
• Shows forts.
• Shows roads.
• With north oriented to the right of the map.
• Titled "A drawn Plan of the Southern part of Lake Champlain. Four sheets" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled 'A colored plan of the southern part of Lake Champlain, from "Tienderoga fort" to Crown Point; drawn about 1758, on a scale of 400 yards to an inch: 6 f. x 1 f. 8 in." in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.