Simpson 1746 map

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	item:- Carlisle Library : Map 70
	Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746. Used in The Agreeable Historian by Samuel Simpson; the book's title page states '... With a Map of every County pre- / fix'd to each, from the best and latest Observations, after / the Designs of HERMAN MOLL, and others. ...'; the map has much the same detail as the map by Moll 1724.
		Simpson 1746 map
	map feature:-	coat of arms ('WW' for Westmorland, spurious) & compass rose & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads & road distances
	inscription:-	printed top WESTMORLAND
	inscription:-	printed under scale line English Miles
	scale line:-	10 miles = 32.8 mm
	scale:-	1 to 490000 ? (1 to 490654 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
	wxh, sheet:-	21.5x16.5cm
	wxh, map:-	191x152mm

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