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Kendal Library : Map 3

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, Strand, London, 1793.
Plate 38 in the 2nd edn of Cary's New and Correct English Atlas.
   Cary 1787
map feature:- compass rose cartouche & compass rose & scale line & lat and long scales (W from London, rectangular projection) & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & canals
inscription:- printed lower right, in and below title cartouche
WESTMORELAND / By JOHN CARY. Engraver.
inscription:- printed bottom
London : Publish'd Jan 1. 1793, by J. Cary, Engraver & Map seller Strand.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
scale line:- 10 miles = 49.5 mm
wxh, sheet:- 30.5x23cm
wxh, map:- 260x211mm
scale:- 1 to 330000 ? (1 to 325120 from scale line)