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Plan of James Island and Fort, Gambia, 1727
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Plan of James Island and Fort, Gambia, 1727

Image Reference: mariners16 Source: William Smith, Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 5. Comments: Smith made this drawing for the Royal African Company which claimed the fort. Note the location of the "New Barracks" (center right) and "another slave house" (upper center). For another architectural drawing of this fort, based on a survey close to 30 years later, see image "PRO-1".

Date
1727
Mapmaker / publisher
William Smith, Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 5
Place
the Gambia
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,000 × 703 pixels

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