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Road from Easton to Wyoming continued past Learn's Tavn. No 92, D / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

Creased, stained, soiled, torn and severly 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 92 D". Military topographic map. Covers Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Mount Pocono. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Paper itself highly imperfect. Scale from index title; confirmed by measuring the map itself. Shows relief by hachures.

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Creased, stained, soiled, torn and severly 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 92 D". Military topographic map. Covers Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Mount Pocono. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Paper itself highly imperfect. 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: none. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 17-22.
PID
nyhs:243370
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004497
n000171m
Owning Institution
Full Title
Road from Easton to Wyoming continued past Learn's Tavn. No 92, D / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Digital Format
Digital Origin
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Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 36 x 34 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W75⁰23ʹ--W75.⁰17ʹ/N41⁰09ʹ--N41⁰04ʹ)
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