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A plan of Great Courland Bay surveyed in August 1760 by Jno. Byrne
Single sheet. Ms. Medium: On modern backing sheet. Physical description Note: Watermark - Villedary. Scale: [ca. 1:16 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Soundings shown. Scale in miles. Additional Places: Tobago. Contents Note: Extensive cartouche with landscape, pelican and paradisical figures. Latin legend saying that happiness results from political and religious freedom. Reference panel blank. Unfinished manuscript, apparently drawn to encourage the resettlement of Tobago.
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Object Details
| ID: | DUF245:17/4 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Byrne, J. |
| Places: | Tobago |
| Date made: | 1760 |
| People: | Duff, Robert; Scott-Duff, A. A. |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Drawing area 36 x 53cm, on sheet 38 x 55cm. |