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Map, hand coloured engraving, A Correct Map of Westmorland, scale about 7 miles to 1 inch, possibly by Thomas Hutchinson, published by T Osborne et al, 1748.
Plate 38 from Geographia Magnae Britanniae, or, Correct Maps of all the Counties in England, Scotland, and Wales, printed for S Birt, I Osborne, T Osborne, A Millar, D Browne, I Robinson, and I Hodges, 1748.
   Hutchinson 1748
map feature:- picture frame cartouche & compass rose & up is N (about 17d E of N) & scale line & lat and long scales (slanted rectangular projection) & time from London & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
A / Correct MAP / of / WESTMOR / LAND
scale line:- 10 miles = 36.8 mm
scale:- 1 to 440000 ? (1 to 437322 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 19x17cm
wxh, map:- 171x146mm
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