Map Collection

Mackenzie 1780s
FA2000.21.2:- 
Chart, uncoloured engraving, Chart of Part of the Isle of Wight and the Coast of Hampshire between Calshot and Gillkicker, scale about 1 to 24000?, about 3ins to 1 nautical mile, surveyed by Lt Murdoch Mackenzie, 1783, drawn by Besancon, engraved by Caplin, published by the Depot-general de la Marine, France, 1823.
map feature:-  not coloured & title cartouche & oval cartouche & north point & magnetic variation & depth soundings (and bottoms) & depth contours & coast appearance & sea marks & leading lines (with copious comments) & sandbanks & anchorages & tides (tidal flows) & rivers & harbours & settlements (on the coast) & castles & fortifications & salterns
scale line:-  7 nautical miles = 551.2 mm
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche PLAN / D'UNE PARTIE de L'ILE DE WIGHT / et / DE LA COTE DE HAMPSHIRE / Depuis la Pointe Gillkicker jusqu'an Chateau de Calshot. / Leve en 1783 par le Lieutenant Murdoch Mackensie. / PUBLIE PAR ORDRE DU ROI / Sous le Ministere de Son Excellence M. le Marquis DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE / Pair de France, Secretaire d'Etat au Department de la Marine et des Colonies, / Au Depot-generale de la Marine / en 1823.
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom Grave par Caplin Ecrit par Besancon PRIX Trois Francs.
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 69x103cm
wxh, plate = 645x965mm
wxh, map = 614x934mm
scale = 1 to 24000 ? (1 to 23546 from scale line assuming english nautical mile)

  Map Group -- Mackenzie 1780s -- with Research Notes

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MN: 4.10.2001