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    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Denis Diderot Didier Robert de Vaugondy Edme Mentelle Emanuel Bowen Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville Jean Baptiste Nolin Jedediah...
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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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    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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    used to designate Indigenous Pueblo settlements. A 1760s map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin shows a village named Teijas on the Trinity River, close to the...
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    the island. The islet was mentioned as "Ghuay" in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Notable endemic fauna found on the island include the Iago sparrow...
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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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    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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    and fishermen. It was mentioned as "Mordera" in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Starting in the late 1990s, a major private undertaking led to...
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    Meroni, Comoros appears on a 1748 map by French hydrographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin...
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    Map of French Guiana by cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1763)...
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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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    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 24 November 2016. 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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    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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  • 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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    late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver, spent most of his life in prison because of...
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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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    612. The settlement was mentioned as Fuurno in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Furna became the most important harbour of Brava in 1843. In 1982...
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