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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen, 1762, published by W Owen, Temple Bar, London, 1763.
For the General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, and included in The Natural History of England by Benjamin Martin; the map was zigzag folded to fit in the book. Descriptive text headed 'The NATURAL HISTORY of WESTMORELAND', pp.313-317, accompanies the map.
   Bowen 1762
map feature:- baroque cartouche & table of symbols & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection, W from London) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & wards & table of wards & settlements & roads & road distances & post roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower right
WESTMORELAND / Divided into / WARDS, / Containing the / Market Towns, Rivers, / Roads, Distances, &c. / By Eman : Bowen Geogr. / to his late Majesty.
inscription:- printed bottom
Engrav'd for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences; for W. Owen at Temple Bar 1762.
inscription:- printed above scale line
British Statute Miles
scale line:- 12 miles = 31.2 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 51m W
wxh, sheet:- 20.5x26.5cm
wxh, map:- 172x192mm
wxh, page:- 12.5x20.5
scale:- 1 to 620000 ? (1 to 618978 from scale line)