Geological Map Of The Pyrenees Drawn To A Scale Of 1/420,000 Louis Galabert

Description: Card Number Of Pyrenees Brand New A L’ Scale 1/420 000 Louis GalabertThe description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.Mineralogical map of the Pyrenees drawn up at a scale of 1/420,000 Designating the marble quarries, the slate quarries, the fossil coal mines, as well as the ore deposits which are of advantageous exploitation and whose products will find easy export to the coasts of the Ocean and the Mediterranean, when the Canal des Pyrénées is opened to navigation. By Louis Galabert (1831). Designed by Charle. Scale: 1/420,000 Paris: Geographical and lithographic workshop of Engelmann & Cie, Faubourg Montmartre, Cité Bergère, in Paris, 1831. 1 colour lithographed map, 45.6cm X 91cm on a 51.5cm X 98cm sheet. Projected locations of the Pyrenees Canal and the Grandes and Petites Landes Canals. "Only the mines that are being exploited or the ore deposits that deserve to be exploited have been placed on this map, because the number of those that exist and that have been described by Malus and by Dietrich amounts to nearly 500, without including those that have been discovered since and those that may still be discovered. » Also representation of marble quarries according to their use: statuary, monumental architecture, ornamental architecture, furnishings, slate quarries. "The quarries indicated above are those whose exploitation is easy or already begun, but there are a much greater number in the Pyrenees where the opening of the Canal will facilitate work and export. "The different types of ore are indicated by letters as follows: A Silver, Al Alum, Ar Slate, C Copper, Ch Fossil coal, Co Cobalt, F Iron, Ma Marble, Och Ochre, Op Gold flakes, P Lead, Pét Petroleum, Pyr Pyrite, Pyr A Arsenical Pyrite, Pyr C Copper Pyrite, Pyr M Martial Pyrite, Z Zinc. The conjunction of several letters, such as CPF, indicates the mixture of metals found in the same mine, it designates copper, lead, iron, and the same is true of other ore deposits. The initial letters in English characters indicate the names of the Authors from whom the nomenclature was taken and the position where the ore deposits are located assigned: thus D means Dietrich and M Malus. The different channels are in red. The boundaries of the departments are marked by a dotted line in black ---- Note: The dotted lines like --- designate the Cassini sheets. » Interesting and rare mineralogical map of the Pyrenees, with indications of the deposits printed in red. Louis Galabert was a politician and military man born on Mars 27, 1773 in Castelnaudary (Aude) and died on January 7, 1841 in Paris. After a military career which led to the rank of colonel, from 1825 until his death in 1841 he was the promoter of a canal project aimed at linking Toulouse to the Atlantic coast via the Pyrenean foothills, a canal which he named the "Canal des Pyrénées". This canal was to join the Adour at the commune of Sames, at the place called "bec du Gave", around thirty kilometers from the ocean, the river then becoming sufficient to ensure the rest of the journey to Bayonne. Less fortunate than other entrepreneurs – adventurers of large waterway communication infrastructure projects of the 19th century (like Ferdinand de Lesseps), he was unable to raise the beginnings of financing for the work. Louis Galabert began to promote his project in 1825, but it was the competing project of a lateral canal to the Garonne which obtained state support in 1828. Maintained in his hopes by the setbacks of the competing project awarded to the Magendie-Sion company of Mr. Doin until 1838, his dream collapsed that year when the French State took over the project. He died shortly afterwards, on January 7, 1841. The work on the Garonne lateral canal was carried out smoothly, with the canal entering service between Toulouse and Montauban in 1844 and being completed in 1856. He was a member of parliament for Gers from 1831 to 1834, sitting in opposition.After a military career which led to the rank of colonel, from 1825 until his death in 1841 he was the promoter of a canal project aimed at linking Toulouse to the Atlantic coast via the Pyrenean foothills, a canal which he named the "Canal des Pyrénées". This canal was to join the Adour at the commune of Sames, at the place called "bec du Gave", around thirty kilometers from the ocean, the river then becoming sufficient to ensure the rest of the journey to Bayonne. Less fortunate than other entrepreneurs – adventurers of large waterway communication infrastructure projects of the 19th century (like Ferdinand de Lesseps), he was unable to raise the beginnings of financing for the work. Louis Galabert began to promote his project in 1825, but it was the competing project of a lateral canal Echelle 1/420 000 Editeur Engelmann & Cie, faubourg Montmartre, cité Bergère Objet modifié Non Pays de fabrication France Lieu Pyrénées Thème Minéralogie, Géologie, Mines, Pyrénées...

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