Map of the Berbice River
Osterlin, Philippus Marcus
Title Leupe: Caarte van de Respective Colonie en Vry-plantagen, leggende an 't Riviere de Berbice op de Custe Gujanna.
The earliest-known general map of Berbice from the period after the liberalisation of the colony was shipped to the Republic in 1735.
The maker was most probably the land surveyor Philippus Marcus Osterlin, who had moved to the colony in 1733 with the newly appointed governor Bernhardt Waterman (1733-1740) and who would remain active there until at least 1752, partly as a land surveying examiner.
Apart from the plantations on the rivers Berbice and Canje, including a number that had just been released, also several paths are indicated together with Indian villages (H), the Brandwacht (B) and the fort Nassau (K).
At the time, the latter was just undergoing renovation and being partly reconstructed in stone, and in the map it is already shown in this way.
North is upper right.
Scale-bar of 5000 Rhineland Rods = [approximately 1 : 158,000].
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