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item:- Sedgwick Archive : map
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Geological Map of
Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by William
Smith, coloured on a map by John Cary, published by G and J
Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1824.
The geological areas are explained by colour patches around
the map boundaries accompanied by descriptive text.
The map was used by Adam Sedgwick.
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Smith 1824
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inscription:-
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printed label on slip case
GEOLOGICAL MAP / OF / WESTMORELAND; / ON WHICH ARE
DELINEATED, BY COLOURS, / THE COURSES AND WIDTH OF THE
STRATA / WHICH OCCASION THE VARIETIES OF SOIL; / CALCULATED
TO ELUCIDATE / THE AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY, / TO SHOW /
The Situation of the best Materials for Building, making /
Roads, constructing Canals, &c. / AND POINTING OUT / Those
Places where Coal and other valuable Minerals are / likely
to be found. // LONDON : / PUBLISHED BY G. AND J. CARY, /
86, ST. JAMES'S STREET.
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wxh, slip case:-
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13x18cm
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