Ordnance Survey of Scotland, Books of reference to the 25 inch parish maps of Scotland, Vol61, Melrose to Muthill . LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEENS MOST EXCELLENT FOR HER MAJESTYS STATIONERY OFFICE. 1865. Price Two Shillings. [7142—50-3/65 n thenatelyual to each took,re in- 1-4. COD- ouble3 the icales ? WT wnt . a w. •Def. . v the PARISH of MQro3(I)pt/i >*) Pnhlu-1. Published EXPLANATORY REMARKS. The scale of the Parish Plans is the 1-2500th of the actual length on theground, and is equal to 25-344 inches to a mile, wh
Ordnance Survey of Scotland, Books of reference to the 25 inch parish maps of Scotland, Vol61, Melrose to Muthill . LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEENS MOST EXCELLENT FOR HER MAJESTYS STATIONERY OFFICE. 1865. Price Two Shillings. [7142—50-3/65 n thenatelyual to each took,re in- 1-4. COD- ouble3 the icales ? WT wnt . a w. •Def. . v the PARISH of MQro3(I)pt/i >*) Pnhlu-1. Published EXPLANATORY REMARKS. The scale of the Parish Plans is the 1-2500th of the actual length on theground, and is equal to 25-344 inches to a mile, which is very approximatelyequal to one square inch to one acre, the square of 1-0018 inch being equal toone acre. The length of each sheet is 1^ miles, and the width 1 mile, the area of eachsheet is therefore 960 acres. Each enclosure has a reference number to the area which is given in this Book. The Braces {J) on the plans are to indicate that the spaces so braced are in-cluded under the same reference number. The Altitudes in feet above the Mean Level of the Sea are written thus—31 *4. The Scale of the Plans of the County is 6 inches to a mile, and each sheet con-tains the same area as 16 sheets of the Parish Plans. There is therefore a doublereference number to each sheet, as VI. 9., the Roman Numerals referring to theCounty Plans, the Arabic Figures to the Parish Plans. The following are the characters employed on the Ordnance
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