Captain E. Barnett

J. H. Bastide

     J. H. Bastide was the chief engineer of Nova Scotia in the middle of the 18th century. The map on the stamp is of Alderney in the English Channel.

Jacques Nicholas Bellin

     Jacques Nicholas Bellin (1703-72) was the senior hydrographic engineer to Louis XV of France at the Depot de la Marine. On the basis of his access to current information  he drafted many maps of both Europe and the western hemisphere. Two maps have been used in the design of stamps.

     Carte reduite de l'Isle de Cuba, 1762,  from his Hydrographie Francaise, 1756-1765

     Carte Particuliere des Isles des Vierges, in his Description Geograhique des Isles Antilles, Paris, 1758.

     Bellin's map of Mauritius, Carte de l'Isle de France, Dressee au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, Pour le Service du Vaisseaux Francais, Par Ordre de Monsieur Choiseul, Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine, par le Sr. Bellin Ingenieur de la Marine, MDCCLXIII. Echelle de Deux Lieues Communes de France de 25 au Degre (plate 94 in Bellin's  Hydrographie Francaise) was based on a survey of the island made by Abbé Nicholas Louis de la Caille during a 5 month visit to the island. In the cartouche at the left Bellin describes the map: Avertissement: J'ay dresse cette Carte sur les Operations geometriques et les observations astronomiques de Mr. l'Abbe de la Caille qui ont ete communiquees au Depost des Cartes Plans et Journeaux de la Marine par Mr. de Maralde de l'Acaddemie Royale des Science in 1763 ("Notice: I have drawn this map from the geometric operations and astronomical observcations of My Lord the Abbe de la Caille, which have been sent to the Depot of maps, plans and works of the Marine by Mr. de Maralde of the Royal Academy of Science in 1763"). It was published in Bellin's Le Petit Atlas Martime. Recueil de Cartas et de Plans Quatre Parties du Monde En Cinq Volumes, published in Paris in 1764.