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Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
   Crosthwaite 1783-94
map feature:- vignettes & compass rose & up is W & scale line & lat and long data & rivers & lakes & depth soundings & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed lower
An Accurate MAP of the matchless LAKE of DERWENT, (Situate in the most delightful Vale which perhaps ever Human Eye beheld) near KESWICK, CUMBERLAND; ...
inscription:- printed bottom centre and right
London, Published as the Act directs, June 16th. 1783. Republished with Additions, as the Act directs, 1 Decr. 1788, [Re]published again, with Additions, May the 1st. 1794 - and Sold by Peter Crosthwaite, the Author, at his Museum Keswick. Republished with other A[ddi]tions June 20th. 1800. / Engraved by S. Neele.
scale line:- 1 mile = 71.9mm
wxh, sheet (badly trimmed):- 41.5x22cm
wxh, map:- 413x207mm
scale:- 1 to 22000 ? (1 to 22383 from scale line assuming a statute mile)
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