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Sedgwick Archive : map 86

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.
   Smith 1824
inscription:- 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.
wxh, slip case:- 13x18cm