Map of plantations on both banks of the Pomeroon River
Chollet, Louis / Burght, J. van der
Title Leupe: Carte du relevé et arpentage d'une partie de la Riviere de Ponmaron et Coté de la Mer adjacent, faits par les arpenteurs V.D. Burght et Chollet etc., et dresseé par.
This map of the re-colonisation of the Pomeroon dates from the era of Governor-General Willem August Sirtema, baron of Grovestins (1791-1795).
The map was presumably designed as a wall map (the holes at the top and bottom indicate that it was mounted on rods), and depicts the further planned reclamation areas, canals (b, c, d) and fortifications (a), as well as land reserved for a new city (A) where the Pomeroon converges with the Wakapau Creek.
Chollet collaborated with the surveyor J. van der Burght to create this map. A general map of Essequibo, produced by the latter surveyor also exists; see NA 4.AANW1473.
A coastal military post on the estuary of the Moroko Creek (‘Morocco Ck’) has been drawn in.
Under British rule the period of sustained economic growth continued but the plans shown here did not materialize.
In 1805 Louis Chollet entered into partnership with his fellow surveyor J.H. Wiedeman; see in this connection his map of the coastal region of Berbice; see VEL1575.
VEL1546 is a copy of this map.
Scale-bar of 1000 Rods = 78 ‘strepen’ [approximately 1 : 48,700].
Taken from: missive of Governor-General Si[rtema van Grovestins] 19 August 1794 kohier 800 no. 171 pp. 428-461.
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