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English: Titled '... This draught. being part of ye Spanish & Musketor Shore & the Bay of Honduras with. ye Islands adjacent; ... by ... Samuel Penthalow.' Published London: Willm. Mount & T. Page. Size 69 x 44 cm. Scale [ca. 1:660,000].

Copy held and digitised by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (call no 894 1730). Dated 1730 by Yale, 1733 by TNA, 1735 by BnF.

Deemed 'one of the first maps to use the toponym “Belize” (for the river, as “R. Belleze,” in the map’s lower portion' by Restall 2019. Cited -

  1. Restall M (2019). "Creating 'Belize': The Mapping and Naming History of a Liminal Locale". Terrae Incognitae. 51 (1): 5–35. doi:10.1080/00822884.2019.1573962.
Date between 1730 and 1735
date QS:P,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1735-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15822440
Author Samuel Penhallow
Camera location17° 00′ 00″ N, 87° 00′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Honduras and Mosquito Shore settlements in early to mid 1730s

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