Beschreibung
Amerika / Kanada
DesBarres, J.F.W.
1781
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Two attractive views are present at the bottom of the map of Cape Southampton west at 1 mile & 1/2 distance and Keppel Harbor north by west at 4 1/2 miles distance. Joseph Fredrick Wallet Des Barres (1729-1827) was a cartographer, hydrographer and military engineer from Switzerland. He became the colonial administrator in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His most famous publication was 'The Atlantic Neptune' a four volume atlas which was published between 1775-1781. He served in a British regiment during the Seven Years War (1756-63) and after the conflict carried out a number of maritime surveys for the British government. Des Barres’s systematic surveying was first of the region and would become of immense importance to the British in the American War of Independence (1775 -1783). Under some pressure to produce maps quickly, some errors would appear in his artistic charts. |
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