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Map of the Cayenne river

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Map of the Cayenne river

Jefferys, Thomas

Title Leupe: The Island colony of Cayenne, subject to the French, on the continent of South-America.

This map of French Guyana runs from the mouth of the River Kourou to south of the mouth of the Cau River. Settlements, sugar works and plantations are indicated, as are settlements and regions of the indigenous ('indian') population. Jefferys published this map in his atlas titled “The Natural & Civil History of the French Dominions in North & South America". -North is up.

Scale-bar of 20 M.60 = 1° = 782 ‘strepen’.

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