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A map of Pennsylvania, and the parts connected therewith, relating to the roads and inland navigation, especially as proposed to be improved by the late proceedings of Assembly : (Copied from his larger map)
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Map of Pennsylvania showing roads, rivers, and portages, indicating "where the natural and improved beds of the rivers are to be used." Shows a canal connecting the mouth of "Tulpehockon" (Tulpehoc...
Map of Pennsylvania showing roads, rivers, and portages, indicating "where the natural and improved beds of the rivers are to be used." Shows a canal connecting the mouth of "Tulpehockon" (Tulpehocken) Creek near Reading to the mouth of Swatara Creek south of Harrisburg, via Lebanon. Shows county boundaries and surveyors' districts, county towns, villages, forges and mills, and selected houses.
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- by Reading Howell, in conformity to the act of the Congress ..
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- At head of title: District of Pennsylvania to wit: be it remembered, that on the thirteenth day of June, in the fifteenth year of the independence of the United States of America, Reading Howell, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of map, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words, to wit
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- Maps, Atlases
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- English
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- [American State Papers edition]
- [Washington, D.C.] : [Gales and Seaton], [1834]
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- 1 map ; 44 x 65 cm
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- ocm81977039
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Scale approximately 1:770,000(W 80°31ʹ--W 74°41ʹ/N 42°30ʹ--N 39°43ʹ).
- "Communicated to the Senate, April 6, 1808."--Page [724] of associated American State Papers volume.
- "To the Legislature and the Governor of Pennsylvania This Map is respectfully Inscribed by Reading Howell."--On map, situated in surveyor districts 1, 2, and 3 of Northumberland County.
- Map differs from some earlier editions in typeface, absence of engraver statement, identification of Lebanon, placement of inscription, and placement of legend in lower right corner. Nearly all city and town names on this edition are oriented horizontally.