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item:- Armitt Library :
ALMC2008.14.114
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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.
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Bowen 1762
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map feature:-
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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
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inscription:-
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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.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
Engrav'd for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences; for
W. Owen at Temple Bar 1762.
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
British Statute Miles
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scale line:-
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12 miles = 31.2 mm
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longitude, Kendal:-
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2d 51m W
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wxh, sheet:-
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20.5x26.5cm
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wxh, map:-
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172x192mm
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wxh, page:-
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12.5x20.5
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scale:-
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1 to 620000 ? (1 to 618978 from scale line)
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