|
|
|
|
item:- Carlisle Library : Map
11
|
|
|
Map, hand coloured engraving, The County of Cumberland,
scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, surveyed by Thomas Donald,
1770-71, published by Thomas Donald and Joseph Hodskinson,
35 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1783.
This is a reduced version on one sheet of the 6 sheet 1 inch
to 1 mile map published from 1774.
|
|
|
Donald 1783
|
|
map feature:-
|
sectioned for folding & folded (4x4) & slip case
(leather bound) & table of symbols & dedication
& compass rose & rhumb lines & up is NW &
scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain &
depth soundings & foreshore sands & coast line &
rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring &
woods & forests & parks & county & wards
& table of wards & settlements & roads &
road distances
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed lower centre
To The / Most Honourble / Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey.
/ Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum / of the West Riding
in the County of York, / and of the City of York, & County
of the same, / Deputy Earl Marshall of England, / and One of
the Lords Commissioners / of His Majesty's Treasury / This
MAP of the / COUNTY of CUMBERLAND, / (Surveyed in 1770 &
1771, by Thomas Donald.) / is most humbly Inscribed by / His
Lordships most Obedient / and obliged humble Servants /
Joseph Hodskinson & Thomas Donald.
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed bottom
London. Publish'd Sepr. 1st. 1783, by J. Hodskinson & T.
Donald No.35 Arundel Street, Strand.
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed label on spine of slip case
CUMBERLAND
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed with scale line
Scale of Statute Miles
|
|
scale line:-
|
10+1 miles = 135.8 mm (approx)
|
|
wxh, slip case:-
|
17x22cm
|
|
wxh, sheet:-
|
86x64.5cm
|
|
wxh, map:-
|
845x629mm
|
|
scale:-
|
1 to 130000 ? (1 to 130359 from scale line, assuming a
statute mile)
|