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Armitt Library : A6615.7
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Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of the Roads etc between Keswick, and Broadwater, ie Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumberland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, drawn and published by James Clarke, Penrith and London, 1789.
Plate 7, folded and tipped in opposite p.95 of A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, by James Clarke, 2nd edn 1789.
   Clarke 1787 map
map feature:- folded (5x2; crumpled and torn) & compass rose & up is SW & scale line & rivers & lakes & woods & trees & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed upper right
Plate 7
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower right
A / MAP / of the / ROADS &c. / between / KESWICK, / and BROADWATER. / Surveyed by JAMES CLARKE.
inscription:- printed with scale line
A Scale of Chains.
scale line:- 45 chains = 131.6 mm (roughly)
wxh, sheet:- 82.5x62.5cm (?)
wxh, map:- 820x582mm (?)
scale:- 1 to 6900 ? (1 to 6879 from scale line)