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    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (French pronunciation: [ʒak nikɔla bɛlɛ̃]; 1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French...
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  • Sieur le Rouge map c. 1740 John Gibson (cartographer), map c. 1758 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), chief cartographer to the French navy William Bligh...
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    islands first appear on a 1742 proof of a map published in 1744 by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, who used Charlevoix's journal as a source. That map and those based...
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    d'Argenville Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis Arnulphe d'Aumont Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Jacques-François Blondel Claude Bourgelat Jean-François-Henri Collot...
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    Tamarix senegalensis. The settlement was mentioned in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Terrafal". In 1917, the municipality of Tarrafal was separated...
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    time the parish boundaries were laid out. The French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772) draw several editions of a chart of the island of Grenada...
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    riviere aux Outardes came in use following its appearance on maps by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin in 1744 and 1764. English maps from the end of the 18th century...
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    detachment of French troops in 1729. — Jacques-Nicolas Bellin A map of the Ohio River valley, drawn by Bellin from observations by de Lery, is in Pierre...
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    Livingstone followed 140 years later. A map from c. 1750 drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for Abbé Antoine François Prevost d'Exiles marks the falls as "cataractes"...
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    Map of the south Pacific by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, including "Lands sawn by Davis" at about 27°S (1753)...
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  • Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (b. 1698) 1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French priest, astronomer, and academic (b. 1713) 1772 – Jacques-Nicolas...
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    the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. For example: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Tableau des pavillons que la pluspart des nations arborent à la...
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  • British-Czechoslovak chess player Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), French hydrographer and geographer Melissa Bellin, also known as Spice; dancer, valet...
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    captain in 1720. It was mentioned as "Palmera" in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde...
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    Meroni, Comoros appears on a 1748 map by French hydrographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin...
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  • 6635C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1522714113. PMC 4914162. PMID 27247383. Brucato, Nicolas; Fernandes, Veronica; Mazières, Stéphane; Kusuma, Pradiptajati; Cox, Murray...
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    post appears on 18th century French maps by Royal hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Fort Caministogoyan". The post was abandoned in 1758 or 1760...
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    of the Cape Verde islands 1747 French-Dutch map of Cape Verde by Jacques Nicolas Bellin The 1781 battle of Porto Praya by Marquis de Rossel Mindelo (originally...
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    Map of Anjouan (1748) by French hydrographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin....
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    Turks and Caicos on a 1764 map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin...
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    Statistics Division. Accessed online October 3, 2007. (French) Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas (n.d.). "Carte de l'Amerique septentrionale (Map of Northern America...
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    Map of French Guiana by cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1763)...
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    1744 map of eastern North America by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, showing "Vill. Atiga" on the Ohio ("Oyo") River, probably the first representation of Kittanning...
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    in his 1780 engraving, "A Plan of the Harbour of St. Augustin". Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Royal French Hydrographer, refers to the coquina tower as a "Batise"...
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    bay was mentioned as "Ghelloons" in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1747). "Carte des Isles du Cap Verd = Kaart van de...
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    cartographers of the late 18th century. In 1773 Bonne succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin as Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer...
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    1773 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin showing leMouchoir Carré, tres peu connu = very little known as if with islands, which in reality do not exist...
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  • The headland was mentioned as Pt. Ghelongo in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. The lighthouse at Ponta Jalunga was constructed in 1891. It is...
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    Ribeira Brava.: 14  It was mentioned as Terrafal in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. It became an anchorage for whaling ships in the 19th century, and...
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    settlement was mentioned as "Rivera das Baras" in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. António Mascarenhas Monteiro, former president of the Republic...
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