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Relief shown by shading
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Title from within map detail
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Shows scale bar at lower left in feet
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Inset with a plan, profile and section of the block house the left of the map - "A Geometrical View of one of the Block-Houses 20 Feet to an Inch" (scale approximately 1:240), "Section" (scale not given) and "A Plan of one of the Black Houses 8 feet to an Inch" (scale approximately 1:96)
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Shows textual description of the town and fort at lower left, beneath the inset plans. Text begins "I can scace conceive it possible, to find out a more Injudicious Situation, or Construction for a Fort, intended to protect a Town, than that here practiced". It is signed at lower right, "I. C. Lieut.t Engrs" and reference to the date 1774 is made. "I. C." is John Campbell, mentioned in Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers as "Engineer at Pensacola"
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Compare Add. Ms. 57716.5. - also signed "I. C."
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Copy at Add Ms 27,715.20. Manuscript "20" added in pencil at upper right with "A 30/59". Shows "C 26" in margin at lower right. Red stamp of R.U.S.I. at lower centre. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "36". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/59". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Titles to verso in ink. Additional manuscript annotations in pencil repeat "20". Paper watermark obscured.
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