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1 item extracted from CO 48/392. 'Map of the West Coast of Africa comprising Guinea,...
Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/34
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from CO 48/392. 'Map of the West Coast of Africa comprising Guinea,... dating from 1858 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPGG 1/34
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1858
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1 item extracted from CO 48/392. 'Map of the West Coast of Africa comprising Guinea, and the British Possessions at Sierra Leone, on the Gambia and the Gold Coast [now Ghana], together with the Countries within the Courses of the Rivers Senegal, Gambia and Kowara, compiled from Official documents, by John Arrowsmith, 1858': covering the area between 18°N and 1°N and between 17°W and 11°E; also marking areas of known extensive cotton cultivation. Scale: 1 inch to about 52 miles. Published by John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square, 17 April 1858. Inset: 'The Lower Course of the River Niger as far as it was ascended under Captn. Trotter R.N., 1841': map. 'Kowara' (also Kworra or Quorra) is an alternative name for the lower course of the River Niger, and the Nigerian state of Kwara is situated on the Niger.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 64 cm x 99 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 276
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980588/
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