A Map of the Island of St. John in the Gulf of St. Laurence divided into Counties & Parishes and the lots, as granted by Government. to which are added the soundings round the coast & harbours, improv'd from the late Survey of Captain Holland . [HOLLAND Samuel]

Double-page engraved map, border 360 x 695 mm, with hand-colouring. London : Sayer & Bennett, April 6, Detailed map-cum-chart of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Laurence, originally compiled by Samuel Holland, Surveyor General of North America, the most important survey of the island from the colonial period. The map marks the division of the island into lots, giving the names of the various owners; a second table gives the contents of the different divisions, townships, acreage and parishes. Clearly the original survey from which this map derives was intended to promote settlement and assist in land-sales on the island; this version was prepared for inclusion in Thomas Jefferys' 'North American Pilot', the most important of the chart books of American waters available at the commencement of the American Revolutionary War. This state is unrecorded in Skelton & Tooley, Marine Surveys of Captain Cook, but cf. 13, chart XIII, variant: now dated 1775, but without the Sayer and Bennett imprint (presumably an oversight by them).