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item:- Armitt Library :
ALMC2008.14.17
image:- ©
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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.
From Ellis's English Atlas: Or, A Compleat Chorography of
England and Wales.
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Ellis 1765
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map feature:-
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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
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inscription:-
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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.
block of stone with decorative carving, seascape and ship
behind
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inscription:-
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printed bottom centre
Printed for Carrington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, &
Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street.
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
British Statute Miles 69 to a Degree
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 41.7 mm
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longitude, Kendal:-
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2d 51m W
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scale:-
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1 to 390000 ? (1 to 385934 from scale line)
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wxh, sheet:-
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27x21.5cm
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wxh, plate:-
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265x204mm
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wxh, map:-
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253x193mm
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