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Map of the Descanço plantation

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Map of the Descanço plantation

Lavaux, Alexander de

Title Leupe: Kaart van de Plantagie Descanço.

This map shows the location and extent of the plantation Descanço which lays on the right shore of the Suriname River when sailing downriver.

Measures are indicated in Rhineland chains.

Some annotations have been made on the map.

Taken from: [OBP] Suriname 1736, [fols.] 1191-1192.

Scale of 100 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 134 'strepen'.

See also VEL1780 and VEL1781.

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