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Carte des lacs du Canada. (
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Carte des lacs du Canada.
Title
Carte
des
lacs
du
Canada.
Author
Bellin
,
Jacques
Nicolas
,
1703-1772
Coverage-Spatial
Great
Lakes
Subject
Great
Lakes;
Maps;
Early
works
to
1800
Type
Maps
Description
1
map;
Relief
shown
pictorially
and by
hachures.;
Prime
meridian:
Paris.;
Karpinski
,
L.
Bibliography
of the
printed
maps
of
Michigan
1804-1880
,
no.
LV.
Extent
29 x 46 cm.
Interpretation
Jacques-Nicolas
Bellin
was
Hydrographe
du
roi
, and
chief
hydrographic
engineer
of the
Dépôt
des
cartes
,
plans
et
journaux
du
Ministère
de
la
Marine.
Bellin™s
Carte
des
lacs
du
Canada
was
drawn
to
illustrate
the
work
of
Pierre
Francois
Xavier
de
Charlevoix
, a
Jesuit
explorer
and
historian.
Charlevoix
, in his
work
Histoire
et
Description
Généale
de
la
Nouvelle
France
II
,
describes
four
mythical
islands
in
Lake
Superior.
Thus
,
Bellin
holds
the
dubious
distinction
of
being
the
first
to have
inserted
these
mythical
islands
of
Philippeaux
,
Maurepas
,
Pontchartrain
, and
Ste.
Anne
within
Lake
Superior.
The
map
also
shows
European
settlements
,
forts
,
missions
and
Indian
villages.
References:
Schwartz
,
Seymour
I.
And
Ralph
E.
Ehrenberg.
1980.
The
Mapping
of
America.
New
York:
Harry
N.
Abrams
,
Inc.
p.
160-162.
French
,
Josephine.
Ed.
1999.
Tooley™s
Dictionary
of
Mapmakers.
Rev.
ed.
Tring
,
England:
Map
Collector
Publications.
p.116-117.
Date
1744
Scale
ca. 1:4,000,000
Collection
Historical
Maps
Online
Repository/Holding Library
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana-Champaign-Champaign.
Map
&
Geography
Library
Publisher
[Paris : s.n.], 1744.
Call Number
G3310
1774.B4
Source
Charlevoix, Pierre F. X. de. Histoire et description de la Nouvelle France. -- Paris, 1744.
Rights
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/terms.html
Archival File Name
G3310_1774_B4_1.tif
JPEG2000 URL
http://histmapimages.grainger.illinois.edu/jp2files/G3310_1774_B4_1.jp2
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