Graues a bas bort de lentrée du Port de Lacadie : auec les profils sur les lignes AQ, BQ et letat au quelles on propose de les mettre ; Plan de lentree du bassin du Port Royal a Lacadie. [ca. 1708]

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Graues a bas bort de lentrée du Port de Lacadie : auec les profils sur les lignes AQ, BQ et letat au quelles on propose de les mettre ; Plan de lentree du bassin du Port Royal a Lacadie. [ca. 1708]

Shows proposed fortifications at the entrance to Port Royal (later renamed Annapolis Royal), on the northern coast of Annapolis Basin (Nova Scotia), roughly bounded by the twentieth century sites of Port Wade and Black Point; includes 2 inset profiles of the proposed works and references A-E, G, H, LL, and DE. The second map, drawn at a smaller scale, details the entrance of Annapolis Basin; includes references A, B, D, and O. Both maps apparently made in response to English naval raid of 1707.

2 ms. maps : hand col. ; each 477 x 319 mm., on sheet 562 x 745 mm.

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