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This perio<-1,a sliorl one, is thus cliarHOt.u'ized by ;i mixtui'oof form.-.. 

 Delisle gave a new type, but it surtered from its small .scale, and did not 

 impress itself so markedly upon the fo!lo\vin<j: maps as many other 

 types have done. But it pre|»ared the way for the yreat ma]) l)y Bellin 

 of 1744. 



TYPK No. 5.— THE BELLIX TYPE. 

 Bem.in, 1T44. TO Correct Surveys, ahoit 1770. 



The beyiimi/Kj of larger scale maps icith more detail, especially in the 

 interior ; also, the dawning of the era of 'Continuous, as distinct from dis- 

 continuous or saltatory improvement ; the coasts little iinproved over the 

 /'receding period, but the interior much more fully shown, though with many 

 errors, in part an inheritance from the p)receding period ; the St. Croix 

 udded to its source, and the head of the Bag of Fundy, at first poor, rapidly 

 ■improves through knowledge gained from the events of 1750 to 1755. Began 

 with the fine map of Bellin of 17P^. and ended with the surveys of Morris, 

 Wright. Des Barres and Holland. 



The greatest Frencdi map-maker of the hist century, with the pos- 

 sible exception of D'Anville, was .lean Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772). He 

 was official cartograpei- of Fiance, and under him was gathered the great 

 collection in the Depot des Cartes de la Marine, which helped to make 

 French maps in the last century of the foremost excellence and authority '. 

 Naturally he had access (o all information then existent in Finance, and so 

 well did he impi-ove his o])porl unities that his maps are a great advance 

 over all predecessors. His tirst map of importance to us is that of 1744, 

 which he made for Charlevoix's " Histoire," (Fig. 31). Of this map 

 Bellin himself says with perfect truth, in '-Histoire generalle des Voy- 

 ages ■' (XII., p. xvii.) : •• I can say that I have been the first to lay down 

 Canada and Louisiana with any kind of precision. The details to which 

 I have had access have been hitherto unknown. To be convinced of this 

 it is only necessar}' to glance at the charts which appear before 1744. 

 But I have had the satisfaction since that time to tind them in the works 

 of our best geographers, who have adopted them with a conlidencc which 

 greatly flatters me." This map is upon a larger scale than any printed 

 map that had preceded it, and is a part of one of rather limited area ; 

 most of the preceding maps we have quoted have been either maps of the 

 world or else of North America, and now, for the tirst time, is Eastern 

 Canada of enough importance to have a maj) to itself. In addition to 

 the large map. there is another of Acadia in the same volume of Charle- 

 voix, which contains some information not on the larger. 



• On Bellin, see Winsor, America, V., 4:ili. 



