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Area now in Guyana. 'Map of British Guiana' Scale, given as 1 inch to about 7 miles,...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1932
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This record is about the Area now in Guyana. 'Map of British Guiana' Scale, given as 1 inch to about 7 miles,... dating from 1875 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1932
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1875
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Description (What the record is about)
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Area now in Guyana. 'Map of British Guiana' Scale, given as 1 inch to about 7 miles, should be 1 inch to about 10 miles. Compiled from the surveys executed under Her Majesty's Commission from 1841 to 1844 and under the direction of The Royal Geographical Society from 1835 to 1839. By Sir Robert H Schomburgk, KRE, PhD. Revised and corrected 'to the present time' by Cathcart Chalmers, Crown Surveyor of the Colony, and James Gay Sawkins, Director of the Geological Survey of the West Indies and British Guiana. With additions by Charles B Brown. Engraved under the superintendence of William Walker, 1875. Sea, rivers, boundaries are coloured.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 165 cm x 136 cm
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- Engraved
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 4314
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3818496/
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Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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Area now in Guyana. 'Map of British Guiana' Scale, given as 1 inch to about 7 miles,...
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