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Chart, hand coloured engraving, Carte Reduit des Isle
Britanniques, second feuille, Partie Septentrionale de
l'Angleterre, including the coast of Cumberland, by Jacques
Nicolas Bellin, published by the Depot de la Marine,
Versailles, France, 1773-93.
Plate 13 from an atlas. Although this comes from the french
hydrographic office it is a map as well as a chart.
Perhaps this is from an atlas, Le Neptune Francois.
The chart has six scales of longitude, in the top border,
'Longitude Occidentale du Meridien de Paris', 'Longitude
Occidentale de l'Isle de Fer', 'Longitude Occidentale du Pic
de Teneriffe', and in the bottom border 'Longitude Orientale
du Meridien du Cap Lezard', 'Longitude Orientale du Meridien
de Londres', and a repeated 'Longitude Occidentale du
Meridien de Paris'.
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