button to main menu  Greenwood and Hodgson 6.9.1823
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Westmorland Gazette, 6 Septermber 1823:-
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE.
SIR,
By inserting the following question on the comparative scales of intending maps of Westmorland, and an answer from some of your mathematical correspondents solving this most difficult and perplexing question, will oblige,
The scale of Mr. Greenwood's map being given to find Mr. Hodgson's.
Mr. G' is one inch to a mile; Mr. Hodgson's one-third larger.
QUERY. - The scale of Mr. Hodgson's?
Your's, &c.

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MAP SCALE what is a third more than one
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