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Garnett 1850s-60s K
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Geological Map of the Lake District, scale about 6 miles to 1 inch, reduced from John Ruthven's map etc, by J Bartholomew, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1865.
Included as frontispiece in the guide book, Ascents and Passes in the Lake District of England, by Herman Prior.
   Ruthven 1855
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map feature:- folded (2x2) & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & settlements & roads & railways & geology & stratigraphical column
inscription:- printed top
GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE LAKE DISTRICT / REDUCED FROM THAT OF JOHN RUTHVEN AND OTHER SOURCES
inscription:- printed bottom left, centre, right
All Rights Reserved / Windermere; J. Garnett. / J. Bartholomew, Edinr.
wxh, folded:- 7.5x10.5cm
wxh, sheet:- 15x20.5cm
wxh, map:- 144x189mm
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale of Miles
scale line:- 6 miles = 24.4 mm
scale:- 1 to 400000 ? (1 to 395740 from scale line)
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