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Map, hand coloured steel engraving, Cumberland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by James Bell? engraved by R Scott, published by Archibald Fullarton and Co, Glasgow, Strathclyde, about 1833.
Lower right is a vignette scene of Carlisle from the north east.
Probably from A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, by James Bell, 1833.
   Bell 1833
map feature:- vignettes & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (West from Greenwich) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & canals
inscription:- printed upper left
CUMBERLAND
inscription:- printed lower right
Engd. by R. Scott.
inscription:- printed bottom
Published by Archd. Fullarton & Co. Glasgow.
inscription:- printed with scale line
English Miles
scale line:- 12 miles = 38.9 mm
scale:- 1 to 500000 ? (1 to 496456 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 25x30.5cm
wxh, map:- 189x239mm