A chart of the Antilles, or, Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles : from the situation of the Caribs Islands, compared with that of the westermost isles of the Mexican gulf, they are named the Windward Islands by the Spaniards, as well as by the French, the Dutch, and the Danes ; while the English, who consider the position of those islands respectively to the Barbados give them the name of Leeward Islands, or Leeward Charibbee Islands / by L. S. de la Rochette. 1784 ; W. Palmer, sculp.

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings and spot heights. Prime meridian: London. Map has a compass rose in middle of map with directional rhumb lines. Shows towns, placenames, shoals, banks, channels, a few anchorages, and various notes on the type ocean bottom in several location. Includes 23 coastal relief profiles with leagues bearing top and side -- "Astronomic observations made on the land" with placenames, latitudes, longitudes W. of London -- "Latitudes taken at sea" -- and inset of "Positions ascertained by courses and distances given; on a scale reduced to the third." Appears in : Faden's General atlas ; London: 1811, no. 42. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5000.ar197700 Electronic reproduction available from George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00029159/00001

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