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2 items (enclosures to procès verbal in Desmaretz and Frazer's letter of 11 April...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/331
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This record is about the 2 items (enclosures to procès verbal in Desmaretz and Frazer's letter of 11 April... dating from 1766 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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- 1766
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2 items (enclosures to procès verbal in Desmaretz and Frazer's letter of 11 April 1766) extracted from SP 78/269 (folio 301). France: Dunkirk. (1) 'Plan du Chenal de Dunkerque depuis la Ville jusqu'a la Laisse de Basse Mer de Vive Eau...'. Map of the channel of Dunkirk, from the town to the sea. With notes. Scale: 14.3 cm to 150 toises. (2) Plan of soundings in the channel of Dunkirk. 'Sondes prises suivant les dattes et cottes marquées cy dessous... sur la longueur du Chenal de Dunkerque ...'. Horizontal scale 14.3 cm to 150 toises [1:2,055]; vertical scale 17.9 cm to 5 toises [1:55]. Both signed by J P Desmaretz and Andrew Frazer, British Commissioners, and by M de Ramsault and Boisson Desloudon, French Commissioners. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 27 cm x 96 cm; (2) 29 cm x 91 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1205
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982275/
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