Comprehensive map of Suriname, sheet 1

Title Leupe: Kaart van de kolonie Suriname, een gedeelte van Guyana, Nederlandsche Bezitting op het vasteland van Zuid-Amerika

This is the reprint of J.C. Heneman’s comprehensive map of Suriname from 1784. It was printed more than half a century after the orginal and contains updates showing the extension of settlements and plantations. These updates are based on the observations of second lieutenant of the artillery C.A. van Sypestein. The insert map of Paramaribo at the lower left also derives from Van Heneman. This first sheet shows the westernmost part of the colony, up to the river Corantyne.

North is up.

Scale-bar 1 : 194.000.