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Map of several lots located next to the Nieuw Amsterdam Fortress

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Map of several lots located next to the Nieuw Amsterdam Fortress

Jeckel, C. W. v.

Title Leupe: Kaart van eenige landen, gelegenzoowel aan de Commewyne en Suriname, ter wederzijden van het fortres Nieuw Amsterdam.

This map shows the location of several lots laying to the east (top of the map) of the Nieuw Amsterdam fortress and the nearby garden of the Society of Suriname.

All these lots lay on the banks of the Commewijne or Suriname river.

Next to the designated lots, five pieces of land belonging to the Society and part of the Reest and Weik plantation have numbers assigned to them.

Of the latter lots, extent and distance from the redoubts and the fortress are measured and displayed.

Taken from: [OBP] ? [fol.] 348-349.

Scale of 150 Chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 93 'strepen'.

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