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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 5.5 miles to 1 inch, by Herman Moll, London, about 1724.
In the page margins, left and right of the map, are illustrations of antiquities, examples - a plan of Arthur's Round Table at Penrith, and a coin, from Westmorland; and the remark 'For want of Antiquities in this County &c. we have Inserted some out of Lancashire'
Plate 47 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 (W from London, trapezoid projection) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
WESTMORLAND / By / H. Moll Geographer.
inscription:- printed with scale line
English Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 44.9 mm
wxh, sheet:- 34x21.5cm
wxh, plate:- 324x206mm
wxh, map:- 256x193mm
scale:- 1 to 360000 ? (1 to 358429 from scale line assuming a statute mile)