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Map, uncoloured engraving, Bowles's Reduced Map of Westmoreland, scale about 7.5 miles to 1 inch, by Carington Bowles, 69 St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1785.
Included in Bowles's Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales.
   Bowles 1785
map feature:- plain cartouche (?) & table of symbols & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & lat and long grid (minimal) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & distances from London
inscription:- printed title cartouche, top
BOWLES'S REDUCED MAP OF WESTMORELAND.
inscription:- printed above scale line
British Statute Miles.
scale line:- 8 miles = 27.8 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 51.8m W
wxh, sheet:- 27.5x21.5cm
wxh, plate:- 212x173mm
wxh, map:- 204x167mm
scale:- 1 to 460000 ? (1 to 463121 from scale line)
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