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11 items extracted from CO 13/68 (folios 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 60, 64, 67, 71, 75 and...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/732
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This record is about the 11 items extracted from CO 13/68 (folios 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 60, 64, 67, 71, 75 and... dating from 1850 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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- MPG 1/732
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850
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11 items extracted from CO 13/68 (folios 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 60, 64, 67, 71, 75 and 268 respectively). South Australia. (1) Sketch plan of Flinders Peninsula. Scale: 1 inch to about 18 miles. Lithographed, coloured. [By] Acting Commissioner of Police Tolmer. Lithographed by J Arrowsmith. (2) Chart of Port Elliot, showing soundings and line of proposed railway. Scale: 1 inch to about 80 yards. Compass indicator. Lithographed, coloured. Surveyed by Richard F Hill, lithographed by J Arrowsmith. (3) Map of the railway from the River Murray to Encounter Bay with section along the route showing gradients and distances. Scale: 1 inch to 30 chains (map); 6 inches to 1 mile (section) (4) Chart of Kangaroo Island. No scale shown. By Thomas Lipson, Commander RN. Lithographed by J Arrowsmith. (5) Chart of Port Germein, Spencers Gulf. Scale: 1 inch to about 1100 yards. Lithographed by J Arrowsmith. (6) Traced sketch plan of Flinders Peninsula, similar but not identical to (1). Scale: 1 inch to about 18 miles. 'Sketched by Acting Commr. of Police Tolmer'. 'True copy'. James Young. MS, coloured, on tracing paper.. Lithographed, coloured. Surveyed by Richard F Hill, lithographed by J Arrowsmith. (7) Chart of Port Germein, Spencers Gulf. MS, on tracing paper. Scale: 1 inch to about 900 yards. 'Traced from the original by J Young 19 April 1850.' (8) Section along the line of the railway from Port Elliot to the Goolwa (now Murray) river. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile (horizontal); 1 inch to 50 feet (vertical). 'Traced from Mr Hill's original section by J Young 24 April 1850'. MS, coloured. (9) Chart of Kangaroo Island, similar to (4), but with all the Ns in the title reversed. No scale shown. Large compass indicator. By Thomas Lipson, Commander RN. (10) Another chart of Port Germein, similar to (7). MS, on tracing paper. Scale: about 7 inches to 3 sea miles. (11) Chart of Gulf St Vincent. No scale shown. MS. [Surveyed by] Thomas Lipson Commander RN. Drawn by E Bellairs. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 31.1 cm x 31.8 cm; (2) 30.5 cm x 31.8 cm; (3) 43 cm x 56 cm; (4) 31.8 cm x 42.5 cm.; (5) 19.1 cm x 32.4 cm; (6) 26 cm x 36 cm; (7) 49.5 cm x 34.2 cm; (8) 25.4 cm x 236.2 cm; (9) 39.4 cm x 50.8 cm; (10) 49.5 cm x 34.2 cm; (11) 43.8 cm x 62.2 cm.
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- Open Document, Open Description
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