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| Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Northern Scotland - Geographicus - ScotlandNorth-pinkerton-1818.jpg Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of the northern part of Scotland Covers from the Isle of Skye Skey to the Orkney Islands Covers the entire region in considerable detail with political divisions and color coding at the regional level Identifies cities towns castles important battle sites castles swamps mountains and river ways Inset of the Shetland Islands in the upper left quadrant Title plate and mile scale in the upper right quadrant Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 28 20 5 object history credit line accession number ScotlandNorth-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Old maps of Scotland 1818 maps Maps in English Maps of traditional counties of Scotland | ||||
