Admiral de Fonte & the Northwest Passage Publisher(s)_C Bathurst Victor Scipion de La Garde

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

This French naval chart of Smyrna includes insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two coastal profiles

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Louis XVI's foreign minister

Admiral de Fonte & the Northwest Passage Publisher(s)_C Bathurst Victor Scipion de La GardeCarte 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