Simpson 1746 map
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item:- Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.90 image:- © see bottom of page |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8
miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London,
1746.
Used in The Agreeable Historian by Samuel Simpson; the book's title page states '... With a Map of every County pre- / fix'd to each, from the best and latest Observations, after / the Designs of HERMAN MOLL, and others. ...'; the map has much the same detail as the map by Moll 1724. |
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Simpson 1746 map | |
| map feature:- | coat of arms ('WW' for Westmorland, spurious) & compass rose & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads & road distances | |
| inscription:- |
printed top
WESTMORLAND |
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| inscription:- |
printed under scale line
English Miles |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 32.4 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 500000 ? (1 to 496711 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 22x17cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 190x155mm | |