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1 item (originally enclosure number 6 to a letter from Consul-General P Walker, 8...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/623
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosure number 6 to a letter from Consul-General P Walker, 8... dating from 1847-1848 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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- MFQ 1/623
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1847-1848
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1 item (originally enclosure number 6 to a letter from Consul-General P Walker, 8 November 1847) extracted from FO 53/8. Nicaragua. 'A Sketch by Chronometer & Compass of St. John's River by Bar. Bulow; July 22, 23, 24th 1847 in his progress down the River in a Bongay...': map of the San Juan River from Lake Nicaragua to the Atlantic Ocean showing the topography of the land on either side. Reference notes on current, depth, navigability, etc. Scale: 1 inch to about 3 miles. Compass indicator. Inset: map of Nicaragua, showing Lake Nicaragua, with soundings, railway lines and the frontier with the 'Mosquitia Kingdom' (now in Honduras and Nicaragua); scale: 1 inch to about 18 miles.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 50 cm x 73 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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