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Dummer 1698
FA1991.24.5:- 
Chart, hand coloured manuscript, The River of Shoreham, ie River Adur, East Sussex, by Edmund Dummer and Captain Thomas Wiltshaw, Royal Navy, 1698.
Published in A Survey of the Ports on the South West Coast of England from Dover to the Lands-end.
map feature:-  hand drawn & title cartouche & compass rose & scale line & streets & rivers & harbours
inscription:-  ms -on- drape cartouche The River of / Shoreham / & Levell above between the Hills
scale line:-  2 miles = 72.0 mm (what miles?)
dimension:-  wxh, map =
scale = 1 to 50000 ? (1 to 44704 from scale line assuming a statute mile or 1 to 51502 assuming a sea mile)

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MN: 25.2.2002