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1 item, numbered (4), (originally enclosed in a letter from John Mitchell to Lord...
Catalogue reference: MRQ 1/30
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This record is about the 1 item, numbered (4), (originally enclosed in a letter from John Mitchell to Lord... dating from c1770-[1800] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MRQ 1/30
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1770-[1800]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item, numbered (4), (originally enclosed in a letter from John Mitchell to Lord Grenville, 30 December 1800,) extracted from FO 22/38 (folio 312). Denmark and Sweden: Kattegat strait. The left-hand (western) side only of a chart, in Swedish, covering the area between Tønsberg (now in Norway) and Kiel (now in Germany), showing coastal towns, rivers, shoals, shallows, named islands (including Zealand (Sjælland), Fyn and Lolland), and soundings. Scale: 1 inch to about 6 miles. Compass rose; rhumb lines; angles of declination in 1770. MS reference notes, in English, chiefly concerning military strategy. Mitchell recommended the chart as: '... the best yet taken up, and more dependable than English charts ...'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For items numbered (1)-(3), see MFQ 1/1281
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English and Swedish
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- 55 cm x 142 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...
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