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Road from Wyoming towards Tioga across the Lackawauna towards Tunhamunk. No 92 A [sic]/ by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

Creased- foxed stained- soiled and abraded. Mounted on cloth- bound and cropped- disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto and verso: "No 92 A". Military topographic map. Covers the counties of Lackawanna- Luzerne and Wyoming- Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Wyoming Valley and Pittston. Also shows landforms and streams. Number accompanying verso title written in different ink.

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Creased- foxed stained- soiled and abraded. Mounted on cloth- bound and cropped- disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto and verso: "No 92 A". Military topographic map. Covers the counties of Lackawanna- Luzerne and Wyoming- Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Wyoming Valley and Pittston. Also shows landforms and streams. Number accompanying verso title written in different ink. Letter A accompanying verso title crossed out using ink and replaced by a character presumed to be the letter J- which in turn has been modified- using pencil- to read as the letter A. Based on scale and situation- J is correct. Pen-and-ink- pencil on laid paper. Scale from index title; confirmed by measuring the map itself. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is in Erskine's hand and may be cited as such. Index title- statement of responsibility- date- series title and series numbering also by Erskine- but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: fleur-de-lis in medallion surmounted by crown- similar to Gravell and Miller American watermark no. 257; however- this version carries the initials "P U". References: Guthorn- Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution- p. 17-22.

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