General Contraction 4 Miles to an Inch. No 54 / by Rt Erskine ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants [unsigned ed.]

Title as given by Guthorn: North Eastern New Jersey, the Hudson Highlands, Westchester Couty, Western Connecticut, Western Long Island and New York Bay to the base of Sandy Hook. B. Part 1. In pencil on verso "Maps by DeWitt Geo. U.S.A. for F. De Peyster Esq." This is a later text; Frederic De Peyster was an officer of the New-York Historical Society during the mid-19th century. Includes inset covering central Connecticut. Military topographic map. Covers northern New Jersey, the southernmost tip of New York and western Connecticut. Shows roads, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink on laid paper. Pencil on verso not original. Sheet bears neither a recto nor a verso title. Title proper and title number, both statements of responsibility, date, scale, series title and series number from separate index sheet filed at head of series. Edition statement appended to series number by cataloger. Shows some relief by hachures. Soiled, creased, frayed and abraded. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. Watermark: "J WHATMAN" accompanied by crest with pendant initials "G R". References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22.