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West Africa. 'Sketch Map of the Towns, Lagoons, Rivers & c of the Countries lying...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/1782/2-3
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- MR 1/1782/2-3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1879
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West Africa. 'Sketch Map of the Towns, Lagoons, Rivers & c of the Countries lying between the Volta and Peida Rivers ...': 2 copies of a map (of territory now in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo; the Peida river is unidentified, but lies just to the west of Ouidah, Benin) also covering territory as far west as Lagos, showing place names and rivers; (2) printed; (3) MS, coloured, on tracing cloth. Scale: (2) 1 inch to about 5.33 miles; (3) 1 inch to about 4 miles. Surveyed by W T G Lawson, Assistant Colonial Surveyor, Gold Coast, April 1879; item 2 printed by Stanford's Geographical Establishment, Charing Cross. Dimensions: (2) 65 cm x 165 cm; (3) 34 cm x 116 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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- 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 915
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