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item:- Kendal Library : Map
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about
5.5 miles to 1 inch, by Herman Moll, London, about 1724.
In the page margins, left and right of the map, are
illustrations of antiquities, examples - a plan of Arthur's
Round Table at Penrith, and a coin, from Westmorland; and
the remark 'For want of Antiquities in this County &c. we
have Inserted some out of Lancashire'
Plate 47 in A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps, 1724.
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Moll 1724
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map feature:-
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plain cartouche & up is N & scale line & lat and
long scales (W from London, trapezoid projection) & sea
plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes &
relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks
& county & settlements & roads
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, upper left
WESTMORLAND / By / H. Moll Geographer.
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inscription:-
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printed plate number, upper left
(47)
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 45.1 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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33.5x21cm
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wxh, map:-
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256x194mm
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scale:-
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1 to 360000 ? (1 to 356839 from scale line assuming a
statute mile)
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