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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-7505
File Name:
C-7505-000
Call number:
Shelf Et827 BaF
Map title:
To His Excellency the Rt. Honble Stapleton Lord Combermere Commander in Chief of the Army in India, Colonel of the 3rd. Regiment of Dragoons, GCB, GCH, KTS, KSF &c. &c. &c. Late Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Charibee Islands &c. &c. &c. and Governor of Barbados, and to a liberal patron Gibbes Walker Jordan, Esqr. F.R.S. the late Colonel Agent for that island This trigonometrical survey [of Bardados] is most respectfully dedicated by their most obedient humble servant F. Barrallier, Captain H[alf] P[ay] 25th, Light Dragoons
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Capt. Carrallier, 4 Little Charles Street, Westminster
Publication date:
1827
Map size height:
145 cm.
Map size width:
116 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map on 6 sheets, dissected into 24 and mounted on contemporary linen, edged with green silk and with extreme sections covered in green marbled paper, colored
Geographical description:
Map of Barbados in a trigonometrical survey. Map shows land ownership, shallows, rivers, and roads. Below the title, to the NE of the island, are tabulated 41 heights under the heading "Heights in feet above the level of the sea of all the principal stations of the survey." There is a tabulation of "Owners names" alongside "Names of plantation or places," in lower corners, listing proprietors by parishes. With compass star. Alongside Barrallier's signature is decoratively engraved "London 1st June 1825./Engraved by J. & C. Walker." Prime meridian: Greenwich. Expressed in a scale of links and of hundreds of feet.
Geographic Area:
Caribbean
Scale 1:
ca. 25,000
Normalized date:
1827
LC bibliographic number:
b54057681
Creator:
Barrallier, Francis, 1773-1853
Creator:
Walker, J. & C.

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To His Excellency the Rt. Honble Stapleton Lord Combermere Commander in Chief of the Army in India, Colonel of the 3rd. Regiment of Dragoons, GCB, GCH, KTS, KSF &c. &c. &c. Late Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Charibee Islands &c. &c. &c. and Governor of Barbados, and to a liberal patron Gibbes Walker Jordan, Esqr. F.R.S. the late Colonel Agent for that island This trigonometrical survey [of Bardados] is most respectfully dedicated by their most obedient humble servant F. Barrallier, Captain H[alf] P[ay] 25th, Light Dragoons