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Map, A Map of the Lake Ullswater and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
Plate 4 in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire.
The map is printed on two sheets of paper which were pasted together on the binding tab, but have become unfixed; each sheet folded separately into the book.
   Clarke 1787 map
map feature:- drape cartouche & compass rose & up is NW (roughly) & scale line & rivers & lakes (form lines on coast) & woods & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower right
A MAP of the LAKE / ULLSWATER / and its environs / Surveyed by / James Clarke
inscription:- printed above title cartouche, upper right
Engraved by S. Neele No 352 Strand London
inscription:- printed upper right
Plate 4
inscription:- printed bottom
Published Feby. 10 1787, by James Clarke, Penrith.
scale line:- 100 chains = 208.7 mm
scale:- 1 to 9600 ? (1 to 9639 from scale line)
wxh, sheet 1:- 61.5x50cm
wxh, sheet 2:- 60.5x49.5cm
wxh, folded:- 25x30cm
wxh, map:- 1083x467mm