Map of the new vacant lots near the Matapica creek

Title Leupe: Kaart van het District tusschen de landen aan de Oostsyde van het gedolven Canaal van Klyn Matapica en die van de Westzynde in de Mottkreek zyn geleegen, alsmede van agterlanden der plantagien in het gedolve Canaal van Tapoeripa of Groot Matapica enz.

This map shows used and newly planned lots north of the Matapica Creek (not visible) and to the south of the North Atlantic Ocean (bottom of the map).

The first land assignments in the Matapica Creek 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 show lots cleared by the construction of two canals, one of which is named De Standvastigheid.

At the bottom, a general description is given of the survey which is signed by the surveyor on 2 June 1794.

Preliminary versions and a variation of the map are available: VEL1866 A-C.

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