Plan of the city of Cartagena in present-day Colombia. Cartographic elements include scale and compass rose. Items are lettered and numbered for identification in key at lower left of image. Includes names of different bastions and religious structures. C
Source creator:
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
Source Title:
Relacion historica del viage a la America meridional ... Primera parte, Tomo primero.
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
Por Antonio Marin
Source date:
M.DCC.XLVIII [1748]
notes:
An account of the expedition sent by the French Académie Royale des Sciences in 1735 to measure a degree of the meridian at the equator. The participants included the Frenchmen, La Condamine, Godin, and Bouguer, and the Spaniards, Ulloa and Juan y Santaci