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Carlisle Library : Map 288

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760, edn 1785.
The map has a dedication to Sir James Lowther.
Included in the English Atlas, 1785.
   Bowen and Kitchin 1760
map feature:- plain cartouche & dedication & descriptive text & table of symbols & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (W from London, trapezoidal projection) & lat and long grid & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & bridges & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & road distances
inscription:- printed baroque cartouche, lower right
A / NEW MAP / of the COUNTIES of / CUMBERLAND and / WESTMORELAND. / Divided into their respective / WARDS / From the Best Surveys & Intelligencies / Illustrated wth. Historical Extracts / relative to Natutal History Pro- / duce, Trade & Manufavtures. Shewing also / the Rectories & Vicarages, / With various other / Improvements / 1760.
inscription:- printed bottom
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Sayer, [erasure] in Fleet Street, & John Bowles [erasure] in Cornhil.
inscription:- printed baroque cartouche, upper left
To the Honble. / Sr. James Lowther / of Lowther / in WESTMORELAND, Bart. / Lieutenant & Custos Rotulorum / of Westmoreland / and Lieutenant of CUMBERLAND / This MAP is humbly Inscrib'd
inscription:- printed above scale line
British Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
scale line:- 20 miles = 133.5 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 51m W
scale:- 1 to 240000 ? (1 to 241100 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 52.5x69.5cm
wxh, map:- 519x675mm