scale line
Blaeu's Hampshire 1645
The map has a scale line of 4 miles, chequered in quarter miles:-
Mill. Angl. quoru~ 4 uni Germanico aequip.The scale 4 miles = 37.1 mm gives a scale about 3 map miles to 1 inch; the map miles are not statute miles. Another estimate of scale can be got by comparing the position of a number of towns with their known positions, using modern ngr positions. This gives a scale:-
1 to 220000and provides an estimate of the map mile used by Blaeu, an:-
3.5 miles to 1 inch
old english mile = 1.26 statue miles
