PLAN of the Great Falls on Hudsons River

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

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

1758

Scale approximately 1:2,400

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Dams--New York (State)--Oneida County--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Hudson River
• New York
• North and Central America
• Oneida (county)
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 50 x 72 cm

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• Previous British Library cataloguing has attributed a date of about 1758 to this map.
• Relief is shown by shading.
• With a "Scale of 200 Feet to an Inch" given at lower right.
• Shows dams.
• Shows landing places.
• Shows an outline for Fort Miller.
• Titled "A drawn Plan of the Great Falls on Hudson's River" 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 "plan of the Great Falls on Hudson's River," shewing the position of the camp and redoubts; drawn about 1758, on a scale of 200 feet to an inch: 2 f. 4 in. x 1 f. 8 in." in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.