Admiral de Fonte & the Northwest Passage Publisher(s)_C Bathurst compiled from trigonometric Surveys

compiled from trigonometric Surveys

courted controversy

Lithographed folding map of the Black Sea

Victor Scipion de La Garde de Chambonas (1750-1830)

The draughtsman has been identified as Johannes Sünnecke

Admiral de Fonte & the Northwest Passage Publisher(s)_C Bathurst compiled from trigonometric SurveysCarte gnrale des dcouvertes de lAmiral de Fonte, representant le grande probabilit dun Passage au Nord Ouest Maps depicting the purported voyage of the Spaniard Bartholomew de Fonte, supposedly between Hudson Bay and the Pacific in the mid seventeenth century, began to circulate in some numbers about a century later, contributing to speculation about the Northwest passage. Vaugondy follows Thomas Jefferys General Map of the discoveries of Admiral de