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  1. Title: Buckinghamshire

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Title supplied by cataloger. In upper margin: No. 26. Historic maps copy imperfect: fragment of larger map.

  2. Title: Kent

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Advertisement on verso for "Kentish books for Kentish men ... uniform with this volume." Title supplied by cataloger. Probably issued in an unidentified volume in the series "Beechings' homeland handbooks," which were published in 1898. London meridian. Relief shown by hachures. Shows boundaries, rivers, roads and settlements.

  3. Title: Annapolis Basin Region, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1690 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic, untitled, manuscript paper map: [Plan of Port Royal, Nova Scotia, based on the work of Vincent Saccardy]. It was produced in 1690. Scale [ca.1:15,749]. Covers Annapolis Basin, Bay of Fundy, and Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the UTM Zone 20N NAD83 (meters) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal and drainage features such as harbors, inlets, rocks, channels, points, coves, shoals, islands, and more. Includes index. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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