Map Collection

Mackenzie 1780s
FA2000.21.3:- 
Chart, uncoloured engraving, Chart of Selsea Bill, the Owers, and Chichester and Emsworth Harbours, scale about 1 to 40000?, about 1 1/2 ins to 1 mile, surveyed by Lt Murdoch Mackenzie, 1786, 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 & lat and long scales & lat and long grid (longitude west of Paris meridian) & depth soundings (and bottoms) & depth contours & coast appearance & coast view & sea marks & leading lines (with copious comments) & sandbanks & anchorages & tides (tidal flows) & rivers & harbours & relief (elevation view as sea marks) & settlements (on the coast) & salterns
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche CARTE / DE SELSEA-BILL, DES OWERS, / ET DES PORTS / DE CHICHESTER ET EMSWORTH / Leve par le Lieutenant Murdoch Mackensie / en 1786 / 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 Cinq Francs. / Avec le No. 42(6 2).
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 69x103cm
wxh, plate = 648x972mm
wxh, map = 626x935mm
scale = 1 to 40000 ? (18 mins lat = 82.2mm is 1 to 40726)

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

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MN: 4.10.2001