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Exmouth Text

Exmouth.
Description of the Rivers Mouth    
Altogether unfit for the improvemts: sought for    
River further Westward and two Leagues short of Torbay is found incombred wth: many inconveniences, the entrance into it (which is about 7 Miles from the City of Exeter) is almost filled wth: Rocks and Shoales continuing above a Mile in Length, These divide the Water into various and broken Channells and difficult passages, and seems insuperable to any Ordinary use, soe that without enlarging upon any other the inconveniences, and disadvantages thereof; Here are noe Qualifications fit to be recommended for any of our Emprovemts.

Map Notes

The map title is in ?scroll cartouche with a pair of dogs' heads above.
The River of / Exmouth
Size: wxh, map = 202x316mm

Table of Particulars

a. : Sands under water
b. : Exmouth Village
c. : Starr Cross

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