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From Rockaway Bridge across Horse Neck. No 48, 1st / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

Foxed 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: "No 48". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Caldwell in Essex County and Montville in Morris County, New Jersey. Shows roads running across the former Horseneck Bridge and through Clinton; this area is now called Fairfield. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. No watermark. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures.

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Foxed 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: "No 48". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Caldwell in Essex County and Montville in Morris County, New Jersey. Shows roads running across the former Horseneck Bridge and through Clinton; this area is now called Fairfield. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. No watermark. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. 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.
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(W74⁰23ʹ--W74.⁰18ʹ/N40⁰55ʹ--N40⁰52ʹ)
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