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Carlisle Library : Map 251
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Chart, uncoloured engraving, the Irish Sea, scale about 6.5 nautical miles to 1 inch, by Captain Greenville Collins, 1693, published by W and J Mount and T Page, London, 1785.
Plate 29 from Great Britain's Coasting Pilot.
The sailing directions relevant to this sheet are on page 8 (1753 edition) and for Cumbria only have:-
White Haven / A little to the northward of St. Bees Head lieth White Haven, being a good dry Pier, where great Ships take in Sea-Coals, and carry them to Dublin in Ireland. This place belongeth to Sir John Lowther. / ...
   Collins 1693
map feature:- dedication & coat of arms & compass rose & up is W & rhumb lines & scale line & latitude scale & sea plain & galleons & depth soundings & anchorages & coast shaded (inland) & foreshore sands & sandbanks & coast views & county & settlements (few)
inscription:- printed dedication, scroll cartouche, lower right
To the Honble. SR. JOHN LOWTHER Bart. On of the Commissioners / for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England
decorated with Neptune, horses, coat of arms, etc
inscription:- printed with scale line
A Scale of English Miles
scale line:- 15 nautical miles = 60.3 mm
wxh, sheet:- 62.5x52.5cm
wxh, plate:- 573x456mm (?)
wxh, map:- 557x441mm
scale:- 1 to 460000 ? (1 to 460991 from scale line, assuming a 'standard' nautical mile)
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