Map of planned defences on Borselen Island

Title Leupe: Kaart van het Eiland Borsselen in Rio Demerary, met de verdedigingswerken.

This map shows a plan by Heneman to reorganise the settlement on the island of Borselen, and is part of his wider plans to entirely reorganise the colony at Demarary.

Heneman’s map of Borselen was probably partly meant as a situation plan and partly as an alternative design that would not involve moving the government to a new mainland location.

Thin pencil lines trace the outline of a proposal for a grand new structure, of which, however, no further elaboration is to be found anywhere in the maps and architectural drawings preserved in the Dutch National Archives and elsewhere.

The building projected to the extreme right, on the southern part of the island, is a gunpowder magazine, a detailed design of which does actually exist albeit in a slightly deviant form (see VEL1564.22).

North is lower left.

Scale-bar of 400 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 665].