The south east coast of the Island of St. John, surveyed under the direction of the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade and Plantations: by Saml. Holland Esqr. Survr. Genl. of the Northern District of North America, and Thomas Wright, James Grant etc his assistants.

Two sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:42 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variation shown 15 degrees 30' W. Ungraduated. Bar scales in statute and nautical miles. Additional Places: Gulf of St Lawrence. Lacks imprint. Title box blank. Relief hachured, land shaded with trees, shoals stippled. Settlements shown. Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, land brown, settlements tinted. Page number '13*' on a paper rectangle pasted bottom right. A title has been added in pencil, not in an 18th-century script, with holes pricked for setting it out.

Object Details

ID: HNS134A
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet; Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet
Places: Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Date made: 1780
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: Plate impressions 54 x 78cm and 53.5 x 78cm.
Parts: The south east coast of the Island of St. John, surveyed under the direction of the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade and Plantations: by Saml. Holland Esqr. Survr. Genl. of the Northern District of North America, and Thomas Wright, James Grant etc his assistants. (Chart)