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Kendal Library : Map 127

Geological map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the English Lakes and adjoining country Geologically Coloured, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Ruthven, Kendal, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, about 1855.
Version without geological sections.
   Ruthven 1855
map feature:- north point & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection, W from Greenwich) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals & geology & stratigraphical column
inscription:- printed upper right
MAP / OF THE / ENGLISH LAKES / AND ADJOINING COUNTRY / GEOLOGICALLY COLOURED / BY / JOHN RUTHVEN / OF KENDAL. / 1855.
inscription:- printed bottom left, right, centre
Engd. by W. Banks. Edinburgh. / Entered at Stationer's Hall. / PUBLISHED BY JOHN GARNETT, WINDERMERE.
inscription:- printed: above scale line Scale of Miles
scale line:- 5 miles = 36.6 mm (approximately)
wxh, sheet:- 44x48cm
scale:- 1 to 220000 ? (1 to 219856 from scale line)