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item:- Kendal Library : Map
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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.
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Jefferys 1770
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inscription:-
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printed lower right
THE COUNTY / OF / WESTMORELAND, / SURVEYED / Anno
MDCCLXVIII / and Engraved by / THOMAS JEFFERYS / Geographer
to His / MAJESTY / MDCCLXX.
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inscription:-
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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.
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
SCALE / Geographical Miles 60 to a Degree
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scale line:-
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4+1 miles = 146.2 mm
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
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scale line:-
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4+1 miles = 125.1 mm
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wxh, sheet (with gaps):-
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109x98.5cm
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wxh, map (with gaps):-
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1086x982mm
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scale:-
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1 to 64000 ? (1 to 64322 from Statute mile scale line)
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