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2 items (originally enclosed in Lieutenant R Owen's [despatch] of 31 August 1826)...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/229
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This record is about the 2 items (originally enclosed in Lieutenant R Owen's [despatch] of 31 August 1826)... dating from 1826 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MR 1/229
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1826
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (originally enclosed in Lieutenant R Owen's [despatch] of 31 August 1826) extracted from CO 267/79. West Africa: The Gambia. 'Chart of the River Gambia Surveyed by Lieut. Richard Owen, R.N. assisted by Messrs. E O Tudor and S M Mercer, Midshipmen of HM Ship Leven by order of Capt. W F W Owen, June 1826': on 2 sheets: (1) covering the area between the coast and 16°05'W; (2) covering the area between 16°05' and 14°35W. Scale: 1 inch to about 1 nautical mile. Dimensions: (1) 67 cm x 99 cm; (2) 74 cm x 128 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS
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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 863
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