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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
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Carlisle Library
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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. / ...
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Collins 1693
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map feature:-
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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)
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inscription:-
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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
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
A Scale of English Miles
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scale line:-
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15 nautical miles = 60.3 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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62.5x52.5cm
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wxh, plate:-
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573x456mm (?)
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wxh, map:-
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557x441mm
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scale:-
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1 to 460000 ? (1 to 460991 from scale line, assuming a
'standard' nautical mile)
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notes
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