Map Collection

Dummer 1698
FA1991.24.13:- 
Chart, hand coloured manuscript, The Port of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset, 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 Port of / Weymouth / and / Melcomb Regis / and part of the Bay of / Portland
scale line:-  1 mile = 53.3 mm (what miles?)
dimension:-  wxh, map = 202x315mm
scale = 1 to 35000 ? (1 to 30194 from scale line assuming a statute mile or 1 to 34786 assuming a sea mile)

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MN: 25.2.2002