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item:- Armitt Library :
ALMC2008.14.120
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland and Westmorland,
scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas
Bowen, London, published by Thomas Kitchin, 59 Holborn Hill,
London, about 1767.
From the Atlas Anglicanus, Or a Complete Sett of Mapps of
the Counties of South Britain.
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Bowen and Bowen 1767
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map feature:-
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baroque cartouche & table of symbols & descriptive
text & compass rose & up is N & scale line &
lat and long scales (rectangular projection, W from London)
& lat and long grid & sea plain & coast form
lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks
& forests & parks & county & settlements
& roads & road distances & market days
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBERLAND / and / WESTMORLAND, / Divided into their
respective / WARDS. / Exhibiting the / City, Borough &
Market Towns &c. / with Historical Extracts relative to
their / Natural Produce, Trade & Manufactures. / Describing
also the Church Livings, with / Improvements not Inserted in
any other / Set of Half Sheet County Maps Extant. / By Eman
: Bowen Geogr. / & Thos. Bowen.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
Printed for Tho. Kitchin at No.59 Holborn Hill
London.
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
British Statute Miles
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scale line:-
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16 miles = 44.9 mm
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longitude, Kendal:-
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2d 50.8m W (approx)
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scale:-
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1 to 570000 ? (1 to 573486 from scale line assuming a
statute mile)
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wxh, sheet:-
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26x39cm
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wxh, plate:-
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234x330mm
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wxh, map:-
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226x321mm
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