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Road map, hand coloured engraving, Continuation of the Roads to Glasgow and Edinburgh, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
Plate 21 in Laurie's New Traveller's Companion.
   Laurie and Whittle 1806
map feature:- north point & scale line & up is NW & sea plain & coast line & rivers & county & settlements & roads & road distances & distances from London & canals
inscription:- printed top border
Continuation of the Roads to Glasgow & Edinburgh, as far as Longtown & Morpeth, 21 with Roads to Scarborough, Whitby, Sunderland, and South & North Shields.
inscription:- printed lower border
ROADS MEASURED FROM HICK'S HALL.
inscription:- printed bottom
London : Published by R. H. LAURIE, No.53, Fleet Street.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Miles
scale line:- 15+5 miles = 50.1 mm
scale:- 1 to 640000 ? (1 to 642453 from scale line assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 26.5x32.5cm
wxh, map:- 257x302mm