Map of the colony of Natal
- Author(s)
- Grantham, James, James, H, 1803-1877, and Great Britain War Office Topographical Depot
- Description
- Topographical map of Natal showing districts, towns and villages, mission stations, houses and huts, inns, rivers, bridges, fords and drifts, lakes and ponds, marshes or vleis, mineral springs, forests and woods, thorn bushes, main roads, wagon tracks, ferries, wind mills, steam mills, water mills, coal seams, iron, forts and forges or smithies. Indicates the lands owned by African leaders. Also indicated is the territory of Faku, leader of the amaMpondo, ceded to the British government in 1850. Table of distances measured by trochiameter. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Bar scale on map given in "Miles." Legend beneath title. "Outline by T. Kips. Hills by W. Wagner."
- Publisher
- Lithd. & printed at the Topographical Dept. War Office under the direction of Major A. C. Cooke R. E.
- Collection
- Africana Historical Maps
- Place(s)
- Africa, South Africa, and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
- Year
- 19th century
- Held by
- Stanford
- More details at
- https://purl.stanford.edu/zc266vd4408
- Use and reproduction
- Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
- Copyright
- Property rights reside with the repository. Copyright © Stanford University. All Rights Reserved.
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
