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2 items (originally accompanying Mr Bowhill's letter to the Commissioner of Lands...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/497
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This record is about the 2 items (originally accompanying Mr Bowhill's letter to the Commissioner of Lands... dating from 1904 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/497
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904
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2 items (originally accompanying Mr Bowhill's letter to the Commissioner of Lands and Mines, 19 September 1904) extracted from FO 80/474. British Guiana (now Guyana). 'Sketch of a portion on the Left Bank of the Barina [now Barima] River British Guiana shewing a portion of the boundary line of British Guiana and Venezuela between the heads of the Barina and Amacura Rivers also the trails, camps, workings &c in connection with the alleged raid by Venezuelan police into British Territory': map on 2 sheets. Scale: 10 cm to 5 miles. Compass indicator to item 2. Item 1 signed: James Bowhill, Government Surveyor, 20 September 1904. Dimensions: (1) 44 cm x 66 cm; (2) 31 cm x 67 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980518/
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