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1 item (originally enclosed in despatch number 59, 30 May 1827) extracted from CO...
Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/125
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosed in despatch number 59, 30 May 1827) extracted from CO... dating from [1827] 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 1/125
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[1827]
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1 item (originally enclosed in despatch number 59, 30 May 1827) extracted from CO 267/82. West Africa. 'Chart of the River Gambia. F Pyne, Surveyor of Crown Lands, Sierra Leone': map (of territory now in Gambia and Senegal) showing British possessions, territory in which the slave trade had been abolished, territory in which the right of farming and building was established by a treaty of June 1827; and the distribution of native peoples, including the Komba; also showing place names, contours and soundings. Reference table to distances. Scale: 1 inch to about 4 miles. Compass indicator. Some details seem to be later additions.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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English
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25 cm x 101 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 811
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980679/
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