Holy-Island, Fairn Islands with the many rocks and hazards that lye scatter'd in that sea : and the coast from Sunderland point in England to St Abbs-head in Scotland [manuscript copy] / [originally] survey'd and navigated by Ino. Adair Geographr. for Scotland [original engraver James Moxon]
Adair, John,1660-1718.
Moxon, J.(James)
cartographic

[17--?]
This is a manuscript copy of one of the maps from John Adair's printed atlas 'The Description of the Sea-Coast and Islands of Scotland with Large and Exact Maps for the Use of Seamen', first published by him in Edinburgh in 1688 (see shelfmark EMS.s.737).
This shows the coast of Northumberland from Sunderland Point to Berwick, and then the coast of Berwickshire north to St. Abb's Head.
The other maps in the atlas, and the title page, were also copied in mansucript and are at shelfmark MS.1651.Z.69/01.
In bottom left hand corner: title hand-lettered in box in ink, and "Survey'd and Navigated by Ino. Adair Geographr. for Scotland", with scale statement '6000 Passus', with scale bar graded [0]-[1/4]-[1/2]-[3/4]-1-2-3-4-5-6.
Above title box: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink "North Lat. 55d. 33".
It indicates settlements with symbols of churches or houses, shaded red, prominent estates with houses shaded red, some with their boundaries also shown clearly. It indicates waterways, lighthouses, hills, sandbars and windmills.
Has wind-rose with fleur-de-lys pointer, orienting top of sheet to north, and bathymetry indicated by soundings figures.
Shows Berwickshire, Scotland, and Northumberland, England.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Nautical Charts
Nautical Charts
Description of the sea-coast and islands of Scotland, with large and exact maps for the use of seamen