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Carlisle Library : Map 141

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by G Cole, engraved by J Roper, published by Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Poultry, London, 1805.
To accompany the Beauties of England and Wales.
   Cole and Roper 1805
map feature:- plain cartouche & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & table of symbols & sea plain (?) & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & wards & table of wards & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, top centre
CUMBERLAND
inscription:- printed bottom, left, centre, right
Engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by G. Cole. / London : Published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry. Decr. 1st. 1805. / to accompany the Beauties of England & Wales.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE / Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 31.9 mm
scale:- 1 to 500000 ? (1 to 504497 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 24.5x26.5cm
wxh, map:- 175x232mm