Map of new lots planned next to the canal to be built at the Leyde redoubt

Title Leupe: Schetskaart van een gedeelte der landen in de Colonie Suriname aan de Noordzyde der Rivier Beneden Comewyne by de redout Leyden geleegen..

This map shows several existing as well as planned lots to the north of (bottom on the map) the Commewijne River and the Leyde redoubt.

The first land assignments in this area were made shortly before the middle of the eighteenth century.

The reclamation of the low-lying parts farther from the river began before c. 1757, starting along Warapa and Marapica Creeks, for which purpose however a system of drainage and supply channels had to be constructed.

This map shows one of these planned canals as well as the lots that will be cultivated to the west (right side on the map) of it.

The depicted lots on the east (left side of) the canal will benefit from the new drainage and all are designated.

The hinterlands of the lots are distinguished by a straight line and not coloured.

Among the new lots the most southern ones (top on the map, both coloured red) contain their extent in Surinamese acres (0,43 hectares per acre).

The additional new lots (coloured light green, yellow and dark green) are the same size as the previously mentioned red ones.

De Leyde redoubt is included for orientation.

The map has been signed by the land surveyor himself on 18 September 1798.

Two preliminary studies of this map are available (VEL 1857A en 1857A1).

Taken from: [OBP Suriname] 1720 blz. 125-128.

Scale of 150 Chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 185 ‘strepen’.