Contraction in the Jerseys. No 98, B / Large Paper by Capt. Scull ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

Foxed, stained, soiled, creased, frayed 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 ink on verso "No. 98 B." In pencil on recto: "No. 98 B". Military topographic map. Covers parts of Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties in New Jersey. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Scale as drawn 1 in. per mi. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Index title, both statements of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: crest and pendent initials "G R" Countermark "J Whatman".