Plan of the Isle of Trinidad from actual surveys made in the year 1797.

Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Physical description Note: Coloured in outline. Scale: 1:210 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated, meridian of Port of Spain. Contents Note: Contains a population table. Indian missions and a Royal Road are marked. A text note claims that the cocoa trees at Cocos Bay had grown from the cargo of a wrecked vessel from the Oronoco.

Object Details

ID: GREN80A/5
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Robert Laurie & James Whittle
Date made: 1800
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: 52 cm x 67.5 cm
Parts: The map collection of William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister, 1759-1834 (Chart)