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Carlisle Library : Map 33
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Geological Map of Cumberland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by William Smith, coloured on a map by John Cary, published by John Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1824.
The geological areas are explained by colour patches around the map boundaries accompanied by descriptive text.
   Smith 1824
inscription:- printed top
GEOLOGICAL MAP OF CUMBERLAND, by W. SMITH, Mineral Surveyor.
inscription:- printed oval cartouche, lower right
A NEW MAP / OF / CUMBERLAND, / DIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS, / EXHIBITING / Its Road, Rivers, Parks &c. / By JOHN CARY, Engraver. / 1824
inscription:- printed bottom
London Published by J. Cary Engraver & Map-seller No.86 St. James's Street, March 1st. 1824. / Note, the numbers attached to the description of each stratum, refer to the Geological Table of British Organized Fossils, which may be had of the Publisher; price 1s. 6d.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE / Miles
scale line:- 12 miles = 91.2 mm
wxh, map:- 478x536mm
scale:- 1 to 210000 ? (1 to 211756 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)