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Map of the mouths of the Demerary and Essequibo rivers with existing and proposed plantations

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Map of the mouths of the Demerary and Essequibo rivers with existing and proposed plantations

Heneman, Johan Christoph von / Kanne, Carl Christiaan

Title Leupe: Kaart van de Westwal der rivier Demerary en de daaraan gelegene plantages.

Map of the mouths of the Demerary and Essequibo Rivers, showing the existing plantations and an elaborate plan for new plantations in the area in between. The names of some of the existing plantations are written into the plots.

Part of a series of plans for the further development of the colony in the 1770s and 1780s.

Top right: ‘Plan I’. Bottom right: ‘gecopyeerd door C. C. Kanne, nr. 4’.

Copy of VEL1506.

Scale bar of 3000 Rijnland rods.

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