[Sketch map of the St Lawrence River from the Fort de la Présentation to Lake Ontario]

Title:: [Sketch map of the St Lawrence River from the Fort de la Présentation to Lake Ontario]
Cartographer:: Laforce, René-Hippolyte, 1728-1802
Former owner:: Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:: [1760]
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: British Library
Collection (local):: British Library Collection
Subjects:: Rivers--Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:: Saint Lawrence River
Extent:: 1 map on 2 sheets : joined, manuscript pen and ink ; 33 x 56 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/hx11z104r
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

Publisher:: [Place of production not identified] : [René-Hippolyte Laforce]
Scale:: Scale approximately 1:180,000
Language:: French
Referenced by:: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999737
Notes:: Attribution to Laforce from previous British Library cataloguing (see citation).
Date from depiction of fort "La presentation" which was renamed by the British in 1760.
Sounding depths are given.
Orients north to the bottom of the map.
Shows scale at lower right, "ECHELLE DE 10 LIEUES".
Compare also Add Ms 57,707.5. and Add Ms 57,707.6., and Add Ms 57,707.9. and Add Ms 57,707.10.
Copy at Add Ms 57,707.7. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXII. Shows manuscript addition of "7" in pencil at lower right. Shows "A 28/48C" in pencil at lower left and "A 20" at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "23". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Blue label to verso shows "A 28/48C". Paper watermarks shows a coat of arms.
Notes (date):: 9999
This date is inferred.

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