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Title: The Roads of ye South Part of Great Britain, Called England and Wales, Containing All ye Cities, Market Towns, Post Towns, Boroughs, and Whatever Places Have ye Election of Members of Parliament &c. All the Great or Post Roads and Principal Cross-Roads &c. with ye Computed Miles from Town to Town by Herman Moll Geographer.

Notes: Printed and Sold by T. Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church yard & I. Bowles at ye Black Horse in Cornhill.

The Area of the Counties of England is given in Square Miles, likewise the Length & Breadth. England 42.439, Wales 7 011, Sum Tot. 49.450 Square Miles.

I have lately done a Set of the Counties of England of 50 Maps, Scotland of 36, and Ireland of 20 in all 106 Maps. An Ingenious Gentleman has taken the Pains to measure them all, so as you see ye Table of ye Counties of England here above &c.

To His Royal Higness Frederick Prince of Wales, This Map is most Humbly Dedicated By Her: Moll Geogr.

Note. This Map has been Copied four times very confused and Scandalously.

Size: 28×30 cm

Scale: c. 1:2,000,000


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Source A post from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Flickr account of a copy (G5750 1732 .M65) held by the Boston Public Library
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Herman Moll  (1654–1732)  wikidata:Q1610319
 
Herman Moll
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Moll, Hermann
Description British cartographer, engraver and publisher
Date of birth/death circa 1654
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22 September 1732 Edit this at Wikidata
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