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Hydrographic map of the Neva’s course from the Nyen road
in Salt Lake to the Nöteborg road in Ladoga Lake, with corrected
situation and depth, and sand-bars and sand-banks observed in
May and June 1701.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
Indian ink. Watercolour. 614x1 129 mm. Swedish.
Graphic scale in Swedish alnars. North-oriented.
Decoration:
The compass card is in the centre of the leaf.
Territory:
Neva River from its head to its mouth, the south-west part of
Ladoga Lake, east part of Gulf of Finland.
Shown:
Settlements along the Neva, along the Ladoga Lake and Gulf of
Finland shores, depths in the main fairway, and in the mouth of
the Neva are marked in feet. Sand-bars and sand-banks by the Neva
head and mouth. Information about the hydrographic situation is
given as small texts here as well. For example: by the Nöteborg
road: “the sand-bank consists of a stone bottom, [stones]
could be seen when low water”, “ the place of anchoring”
and so on; by the Nyen road ”the bank consists of solid
sand with stones, depths are 4, 5, 6 feet”, “the old
fairway to Nyen”, “the new fairway to Nyen”
and so on. Nyen is signed, a Russian church and a Swedish cathedral
are rendered, on the cape between Neva and Black Stream is the
Nyenskans Fortress.
Annotation:
The map is analogues to one that is kept in RGA VMF, St-Petersburg.
It is also the exact hydrographic map of Ladoga Lake and Neva.
Worked out by Carl Eldberg by the Swedish Admiralty’s order.
Literature:
Bagrow L. (1953), Lappo-Danilevsky A.S., Ehrensvärd U., Jangfeldt
B.
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