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Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789.
The map is sectioned into 4 sheets and inserted in the 5th edition of Thomas West's Guide to the Lakes, 1793. Each section is mounted on paper to provide a safe margin beside the internal cuts.
The map was originally published in the William Gough translation of Camden's Britannia, London, 1789.
   Cary 1789
map feature:- compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed lower right
A / MAP / of / WESTMORELAND / from the best / AUTHORITIES. / Engraved by J. Cary.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Statute Miles 69 1/4 to a degree of Latitude.
scale line:- 8 miles = 83.4 mm
scale:- 1 to 150000 ? (1 to 154374 from scale line assuming a statute mile)