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Dartmouth Text

Dartmouth.
Description of the Harbour    
Objections to it altho' a Port of good Accomodation    
About two Leagues Westward of Torbay is a Noble River, but Scituated between mighty high Land especially at its very Entrance, there wants no Water without or within it, nor many other improveable advantages for Shipping Publique or Private wch: may be referr'd to in a Survey taken by Order of the Year 90 But by reason of the conceived Hazards of Entring the same under the High lands and Rocky Shoares, it seems to have been rejected, and the emprovemts: for the Navy then intended were made in Ham=oze by Plymouth.

Map Notes

The map title is in wreath of ?ferns.
The Harbour of / Dartmouth
Size: wxh, map = 202x316mm

Table of Particulars

a. : Mew-stone
b. : Combs
c. : Blackstone
d. : Dartmo. Castle
e. : Little Dartmouth
f. : Kings-wear Castle
g. : Old Ruines
h. : Warfleet
i. : Kings-wear
k. : Hughdown
l. : Old Millbay
m. : Anchor Stone
n. : Dittason

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