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Map, hand coloured engraving, A Modern Map of Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 6 miles to 1 inch, by John Ellis, London, 1765, published by Carrington Bowles, St Pauls Churchyard, and Robert Sayer, Fleet Street, London, 1766.
Published in Ellis's English Atlas: Or, A Compleat Chorography of England and Wales.
   Ellis 1765
map feature:- monumental cartouche & table of symbols & sea plain & coast shaded & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower right
A Modern MAP of / WESTMORE- / LAND, / Drawn from the / latest Surveys; / Corrected & Improved / by the best Authorities. / J. Ellis sculpt.
inscription:- printed bottom centre
Printed for Carrington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, & Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street.
inscription:- printed above scale line
British Statute Miles 69 to a Degree
scale line:- 10 miles = 41.2 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 51m W
scale:- 1 to 390000 ? (1 to 390617 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 29x22.5cm
wxh, plate:- 263x203mm
wxh, map:- 251x192mm
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