Map of the Cordon of Defence at the Commewijne River

Titel Leupe: Kaart van het terrein tusschen Post 's Hertogenbosch en L'Esperance, aan de Rio Commowyne.

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 Commewijne River and the Capoerica Creek, however, was likely made by the surveyor Goetzee. Like his other maps, the main attention is given to forests, swamps, creeks and cultivated lands.

Scale-bar of 200 Chains Rhineland = 128 ‘strepen’.