Carte particuliere de l'embouchure du fleuve du Missisipy. [ca. 1722]

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Carte particuliere de l'embouchure du fleuve du Missisipy. [ca. 1722]

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Nautical chart of the Mississippi River Delta variously associated with Adrien Pauger and an an engineer named La Tour. Depths shown with soundings. Identifies the delta's main channels and Fort Balise on Toulouse Island (later submerged); cf. Roberts, R.B. Encyclopedia of historic forts (1988). Described and reproduced in Jackson, J. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995) pl. 5, p. 31, no. 147.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 346 x 534 mm.

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