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Kendal Library : Map 145

Map, 4 sheets mounted as one, hand coloured engraving, the County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
There is an inset Plan of Kendal.
The decoration around the title is a mountain scene, on a bridge are three surveyors, one with a waywiser.
   Jefferys 1770
inscription:- printed lower right
THE COUNTY / OF / WESTMORELAND, / SURVEYED / Anno MDCCLXVIII / and Engraved by / THOMAS JEFFERYS / Geographer to His / MAJESTY / MDCCLXX.
inscription:- dedication: printed upper left
To the / Nobilty Gentry / CLERGY and FREEHOLDERS / OF THE / COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND / Subscribers to this SURVEY. / This MAP is humbly Inscribed / By their most Obedient and / Devoted Servant / Thomas Jefferys.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE / Geographical Miles 60 to a Degree
scale line:- 4+1 miles = 146.2 mm
inscription:- printed with scale line
Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
scale line:- 4+1 miles = 125.1 mm
wxh, sheet (with gaps):- 109x98.5cm
wxh, map (with gaps):- 1086x982mm
scale:- 1 to 64000 ? (1 to 64322 from Statute mile scale line)