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Map, colour lithograph, Map of the Alston Moor and Coal Cleugh Mining Districts, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by William Wallace, published by Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross, London, 1861.
Slipped in a pocket on the back cover of The Laws which Regulate the Deposit of Lead Ore in Veins.
Many features on the map are only labelled by a number within their indexed square. The numbes refer to a key, 'index', on pages 251-258 of the book in which it belongs.
   Wallace 1861 map
map feature:- folded (6x3) & table of symbols & north point & up is SE & scale line & index grid (A..L,1..10) & rivers & settlements & roads & turnpike roads & geology & mines
inscription:- printed lower right
MAP OF THE / ALSTON-MOOR AND COAL-CLEUGH / MINING DISTRICTS; / ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE LAWS REGULATING THE FORMATION AND DIRECTION OF VEINS, / AND THOSE CONNECTED WITH THE DEPOSITION OF / LEAD ORE.
inscription:- printed bottom
London : Published by Edward Stanford, 6, Charing Cross, Nov. 1st. 1861.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE OF MILES.
scale line:- 2+1 miles = 152.6 mm
wxh, sheet:- 69x55.5cm
wxh, map:- 640x516mm
scale:- 1 to 32000 ? (1 to 31638 from scale line)
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