Carte du cours de l'Ohyo ou la belle riviere : depuis sa source jusqu'a sa jonction avec celle d'Ouabache, avec les pays les plus voisins / par le Sr. Bellin Ingenieur de la Marine 1755. 1755.

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Carte du cours de l'Ohyo ou la belle riviere : depuis sa source jusqu'a sa jonction avec celle d'Ouabache, avec les pays les plus voisins / par le Sr. Bellin Ingenieur de la Marine 1755. 1755.

Manuscript map of the Ohio River and settlements from Lake Erie to Fredericksburg, Virginia to the junction of the Ohio with the Wabash River (identified as approximately the 38th to the 43rd latitude by the 80th to the 90th longitude). Note below the title states that the country between the Fort de la Presque-Ile to the Riviere de Chiningue is drawn from "les Plans et Mémoires de Mr. le Chevalier le Mercier." The map depicts forts (Duquesne, Detroit, Niagara, Presque-Ile, Necessite), Native American villages (Iroquois, Tuskaroras, Hurons, Miamis), rivers and elevations. Notes on the map give English names for places, identifies an abandoned Iroquois village, and the spot near present day Louisville where the bones of what was believed to be an elephant were found in 1739.

1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 51.5 x 71.9 cm.

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Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772

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Jacques Nicolas Bellin is mentioned as hydrogapher to King Louis XV in The Mapping of America by Seymour I. Schwartz and Ralph E. Ehrenberg (Harry N. Abrams, 1980). From the guide to the Jacques Nicolas Bellin Map of the Great Lakes, 1755, (Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives) ...