scale line
Jansson's Hampshire 1646Milliari Anglica.english miles and german miles, the latter being 4 english miles each.
Milliari Germanica.
The english scale line is chequered and labelled at 1 mile intervals. 6 miles = 47.5mm (561 pixels at 300dpi) giving a map scale 1 to 203294 on the bad assumption of an english statute mile. The map scale is about:-
1 to 200000 ?A more reliable estimate of the scale is got by comparing the positions of a selection of places with their known positions, using DISTAB.exe. From this procedure the map scale is 1 to 249721, about:-
3 miles to 1 inch
1 to 250000 ?Which provides an estimate of the map's english mile, an:-
4 miles to 1 inch
old english mile = 1.23 statute miles
