This draught of the town & sea coast about Peterhead commonly call'd Buchan Ness is most humbly dedicated to the Parliament of Great Britain /
Jaffray, John,active 1737-1739.
Cooper, Richard,1696-1764.
[Scotland? : s.n.],
1749.
Relief shown pictorially; bathymetry by soundings (in fathoms).
Shows enclosures, mills, buildings, place names, rocky areas; inset also shows shoals, sands (stippled), beacons, piers with measurements, shaded coast line, road; some features shown by symbol some by written explanations.
Main map includes a compass rose orientated with north towards the upper left ("by the needle").
Scale statement for main map reads: "Scale of fathoms 5 feet per fathom", with scale bar graded [0]-300.
Includes an inset at top right containing a plan of Peterhead harbour, with scale "of 40 fathoms in the inch at five feet per fathom", with scale bar graded [0]-150.
Establishes the latitude for the town of Peterhead at 57.30.
At bottom left hand corner, a box with dedication functioning as title, gives date, and the names of the surveyor and draughtsman, John Jaffray, and the engraver, Richard Cooper.
Map measurements and scale taken from Moir description.
Moir, D.G. "Early maps of Scotland to 1850", 3rd. ed.,
Shows Peterhead, Aberdeenshire (Scotland).
Held at National Library of Scotland
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