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Road map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810.
Notice the labels in the border scales - at the side of the map 'Long. W. fr. Lond.', the longitude scale; at the bottom 'Long. W. fr London', on the latitude scale.
Perhaps the version in Wallis's New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Travellers Companion.
   Wallis 1810
map feature:- plain cartouche & table of symbols & compass rose & up is E & scale line & lat and long scales & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & settlements & roads & turnpike roads & post roads & distances from London & canals & electoral data
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper border
WESTMORELAND
inscription:- printed bottom
London Publish'd by J. Wallis, 77, Berwick Str. Soho.
scale line:- 10 miles = 13.2 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 47m W
scale:- 1 to 1200000 ? (1 to 1219200 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 10.5x14.5cm
wxh, map:- 92x133mm