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Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, 188 Strand, London, 1787, edn 1793.
   Cary 1787
map feature:- compass rose cartouche & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection?) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower right
CUMBERLAND
inscription:- printed bottom
London : Published Jany. 1st. 1793. by J. Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, Strand.
inscription:- printed with scale line
British Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree.
scale line:- 10 miles = 38.0 mm
wxh, sheet:- 24.5x31cm
wxh, map:- 211x262mm
scale:- 1 to 420000 ? (1 to 423512 from the scale line assuming a statute mile)