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Road map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 11.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 1790, edn 1806.
From Cary's Traveller's Companion, an atlas of turnpike routes, published 1790 onwards.
The reverse side has the corresponding map for Wiltshire.
   Cary 1790
map feature:- compass rose cartouche & compass rose & up is E & scale line & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & parks & county & settlements & roads & road distances & distances from London & canals
inscription:- printed title cartouche, at top
WESTMORELAND
inscription:- printed either side of the title cartouche
By J. Cary. / Engraver.
inscription:- printed bottom
London Published July 1. 1806 by J. Cary Engraver No.181 Strand
scale line:- 10 miles = 21.7 mm
scale:- 1 to 740000 ? (1 to 741633 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 12x18.5cm
wxh, map:- 93x131mm