A commercial map of Scotland with the roads, stages and distances

Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Physical description Note: Coloured in outline. Scale: [ca. 1:750 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated globular projection, prime meridian through Edinburgh. Contents Note: Information on the chart includes notes on: the size, products and population of towns;the navigation of rivers;suggestions for canal routes and for stationing a frigate as protection against privateers. It also includes comments on the duty on coal and proposals to tax Dutch fishing vessels.

Object Details

ID: GREN2B/2
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Knox, J.
Date made: 1782
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: 73 x 56cm.
Parts: The map collection of William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister, 1759-1834 (Chart)