October 30th, 2019, 7:42am.
Feathered friend
October 30th, 2019. 7:42am-7:50am. I think I was joined by a heron, I’d never seen one in the Cove before.
“Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 6 Recto, North Atlantic Ocean”
From Labrador to Acadia (present-day southeast Maine) seen here, only Newfoundland is identified by name (Terra Corte Regalis).
“Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 6 Recto, North Atlantic Ocean” Holanda, António de, approximately 1480-1556 Illustrator. Homem, Lopo, flourished 1517-1565 Cartographer. Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1469-1521 Patron. Reinel, Jorge, active 16th century Cartographer. Reinel, Pedro, born approximately 1464 Cartographer. [publisher not identified], 1519. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_18557/?r=0.474,0.02,0.309,0.18,0
Partie orientale du Canada
“Partie orientale du Canada, traduitte de l’anglois de la carte de Jefferys publiée a Londres en May 1755.” Jefferys, Thomas. Paris [1755?] https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3400.ar003100/, https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/9714,
Canada et Louisiane
“Canada et Louisiane”, Le Rouge, Georges-Louis. Paris. 1755. https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3300.ar003300/?r=0.279,0.113,0.852,0.498,0
Carta d’una parte dell’ America Settentrionale
“Carta d’una parte dell’ America Settentrionale : che serve per ben poter intendere le pretensioni delli Inglesi, esposte ne loro memoriali in occasione della regolazione de limiti con la Francia nell’ America svdetta.” [1755?] [Verona?] https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15823925
“A new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain: With the adjacent parts of New England and Canada”
“Bay of Fundy or Argal”, “Gulf of Nova Scotia”, “Cape Britain”
“A new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain: With the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys”
Jefferys, Thomas. [London] 1755. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2040299
Geographical Map of New France
There’s a few settlements noted on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia here, “sesembre” being Sambro helps orient Halifax harbor. The settlement between “S” and “R” is of interest, S being “River sainte Margrite” and R “baye senne”.
Champlain, Samuel De, Creator, and David Engraver Pelletier. “Geographical Map of New France Made by Mr. de Champlain of Saintonge, Ordinary Captain for the King’s Navy.” Paris: Jean Berjon, 1612. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668652/.
“Harbor of Halifax (Dartmouth Shore)”
“Harbor of Halifax”, Des Barres, Joseph F. W. [1777-78?] https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3301pm.gan00021/?sp=30&r=0.1,-0.345,0.926,1.292,0