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Fort Maurits on the Rio Francisco

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Fort Maurits on the Rio Francisco

Marcgraf, Georg / Blaeu sr., Joan / Post, Frans

Fort Maurits on the Rio Francisco.

Castrum Mauritij.

Bottom right: No: 16.

Key: A.B. Rupes acclivis 80 pedum altitudine foßis 'e saxo excisis. / C. Domus Melchioris Albesz, Domini huius Oppidulum.

A smaller wooden fort lies on the far side of the river.

Cf. National Archives, The Hague, inv. nr. VELH 619.079.

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Sources and literature

Barlaeus, Caspar, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia: et alibi nuper gestarum, sub præfectura illustrissimi comitis I. Mavritii [...] historia (1647)