The Charles Close Society for the study of Ordnance Survey maps

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One-inch (1:63,360) first edition map of Scotland sheet 98, outline

63. As first published in 1858 the Lewis area of this sheet was mapped, but not the Harris. This copy printed in July 1883 is the earliest recorded to show Harris in addition. This version was apparently deemed unsatisfactory, and when finally published in September 1884, the sheet had different lettering and a different imprint from those shown here.

From a copy in the collection of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society