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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.21
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 5.5 miles to 1 inch, by Herman Moll, London, about 1724, edn 1753.
Included in H. Moll's British Atlas, or Pocket Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales, published by T Bowles and .J Bowles and Son, London, 1753.
The map is amended by Emanuel Bowles; the copper plates are cut down so that the marginal information on antiquities etc is gone; a few roads are added and the mileage figures increased to be Ogilby's measured miles instead of the computed miles; etc? The plate is renumbered 41.
   Moll 1724
map feature:- plain cartouche & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (W from London, trapezoid projection) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
WESTMORLAND / By / H. Moll Geographer.
scale line:- 10 miles = 44.7 mm
wxh, sheet:- 27.5x22.5cm
wxh, plate:- 257x208mm
wxh, map:- 254x195mm
scale:- 1 to 360000 ? (1 to 360032 from scale line assuming a statute mile)