Carte du Cap Franc̨ois de Saint Domingue, de l'isle de Cuba, de la Jamaique avec le canal de Bahama, l'entrée du fleuve St. Louis, et le pays de la Louisiane et les isles adjacentes, le tout depuis 16 degres de latitude jusqu'a trente six

Dumont de Montigny

[1747]

Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000]

French

Newberry Library

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

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1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 336 x 680 mm.

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• Remarque le rouge est la terre aux Francois; le jeaune aux Espagnols, et le bleu aux Anglois.
• Note on verso: Carte general no. 1.
• Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red, blue). Drawn on two pieces of paper pasted together to form one sheet; detached opposite title page.
• No. 1 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
• Photostat of related manuscript map in the Archives Nationales (France), number N³ no. 2, forms part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library)
• Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.