Profile of the Cordon of Defence:

Titel Leupe: Plan D. Profil van de Schulprits van Paramaribo.

After 1750 the Marrons, former enslaved people who had fled from the plantations and formed new communities in the Surinamese interior, became increasingly formidable opponents against the plantation owners and the colonial government. Following their unification under the leadership of the famous Boni, whose name they later adopted for themselves as a group, in 1771 a full-scale war broke out, which is now known as the (first) Boni War. This ended in 1776 with the expulsion of the Boni to French Guyana. To contain and defeat the Marrons, the colonial government built the almost 100-kilometre-long Cordon of Defence or Cordon Path. The first designs and surveys for this through patrol road with military posts at regular intervals 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. Most of these maps contain profiles of the road at particular junctions. This profile gives a general model of the road. Next to the path itself, it depicts a canal at low and high tide. The surrounding forests are indicated as is the most common soil type in the area.

Scale-bar of 50 feet = 140 strepen.