Map of the Cordon of Defence at the Cotica River

Titel Leupe: _Kaart van het terrein tusschen Post Vreedenburg en de Ceder

en La Paix Kreeken._

This survey map was designed to complement the plans for the large Cordon of Defence which was constructed between 1774 and 1778 to protect the eastern plantation areas and the adjacent coastal strip against the initially very successful Marron troops led by Boni. The first designs and surveys had been prepared in 1772, but preliminary work on a large scale, in which the military engineers Johan Christoph Heneman and Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Wollant, played a leading role, began only a year later. Both of them produced detail maps of the separate sections of the Cordon path. This map of the section between the Cotica River and the post Vredenburg, however, was likely made by the surveyor Goetzee. Like his other maps, the main attention is given to forests, swamps and creeks.

Scale-bar of 300 Chains = 135 ‘strepen’.