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Map of a new parcels at the Saramacca River
Böhm, Johann Gottfried Rabanus
Title Leupe: Project kaart tot anlegging van Plantagien langs de rivier Saramacca, ieder groot 500 Akkers enz.
This 1794 large project map for the assignment of 240 new plantations along the Saramacca River is one of the works of the military engineer and surveyor Johann Gottfried Rabanus Böhm, who was involved in cultivating the area along the Saramaccafor years as the executor of assigning land. On his printed map of 1801 (VEL1679A en B), Moseberg copied the plan of the project shown here almost unchanged.
North is below.
Scale-bar of 900 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 40,000].
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