Portland Wyke Regis Weymouth Chesil Beach Dorset MOUNT & PAGE sea chart 1758 map
The island appears thus as you sail to the eastward. Artist/engraver/cartographer: William & John Mount, and Thomas Page. Provenance: "The English Pilot - Part I, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports. Together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers in the Southern Navigation upon the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streights-Mouth; with the Coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madera, Cape de Verde and Western Islands shewing the courses and distances, from one place to another. The setting of the tides and currents. The ebbing and flowing of the sea &c.", London, printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, MDCCXLIX. Type: Antique 18th century copperplate map. The following places are shown or referred to on the map: Portland – Wyke Regis – Weymouth – Chisell (Chesil Beach) – Abbotsbury – Burton Bradstock
Size: 5541px × 3464px
Location: Dorset
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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