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Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 7 miles to 1 inch, by Hermann Moll, published London, 1724.
In spare spaces and at top and bottom of the map there are vignettes of antiquities, mostly roman altars.
Plate 48 from A New Description Of England and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands, or a later edition.
   Moll 1724
map feature:- plain cartouche & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & table of wards & settlements & roads & road distances & vignettes
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBERLAND / By / H. Moll Geographer
inscription:- printed with scale line
English Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 37.6 mm
scale:- 1 to 430000 ? (1 to 428108 from scale line)
wxh, sheet (badly trimmed):- 22x33cm
wxh, map:- 203x256mm