Manuscript map, one of a group of three depicting Newfoundland. Appears to be a copy, made 1800 or later, of an earlier map. Shows the entrance into St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland. Shows the foundations and early building stages of two gun batteries, a smaller one on the north shore and a larger, more advanced one on the south. Colored.
Newfoundland and Labrador--Maps Atlantic Coast (N.L.)--Maps St. John's Harbour (N.L.)--Maps Fortification--Newfoundland and Labrador--Maps Early maps. (lcgft) Manuscripts (aat)
Source
Kashnor Collection of Early American Maps, 1670-1856 Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Purchased from Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 105, No. 565, 1927. CSmH
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