To Isaac Pickering Esqr of Fox Lease Hants this plan of Tortola from actual survey by George King

Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:35 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated map, meridian of Greenwich. Land relief and seabed shoals are indicated. Scale in miles and chains. Additional Places: Caribbean, Virgin Islands. Contents Note: The positions of sugar works are shown. The reference table lists 104 plantations, coloured on the plan, with their principal crops. Pickering's landholdings are the largest.

Object Details

ID: GREN80A/3
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: King, George; Wilkinson
Places: Caribbean Sea; British Virgin Islands Tortola
Date made: 1798
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: 48.5 cm x 63.5 cm
Parts: The map collection of William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister, 1759-1834 (Chart)