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Map of a lot at the Suriname River
Lavaux, Alexander de
Title Leupe: Kaart van een oude Plantagie, gelegen tusschen de Plantagien Surimonbo en la Diligence.
This survey of a plot of land at the Suriname River was requested by Sir Benjamin Henriquez Granada and the owner Henriquez de Barrios. This "old plantation" is located between the Surimonbo and La Diligence plantations. The surveyor determined this location through observation as the licenses had been "consumed by termites". The extent turns out to be 1600 Surinamese acres or in other words 688 hectares. The map was signed on 3 March 1735 and ratified on 28 April 1736.
North is below.
Scale-bars of 210 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 140 ‘strepen’.
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