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creator:Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.

title: From Col Dey’s to the Ponds & from Wykoff to Bell Grove. No 108 / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

genre/form:Early works to 1800 -- lcsh

format: 53.0 cm. wide by 19.0 cm.high, 2 maps on 1 sheet

description: Military topographic maps. The left, Col. Dey's to the Ponds, covers the townships of Wayne and Frankline in Passaic County, New Jersey. The right, Wykoff to Bell Grove, covers the townships of Hohokus and Franklin in Bergen County, New Jersey. Both show buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is in Erskine's hand and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, series date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Detailed date from label on left map: "[Surveye]d 2 - July - 80" Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Watermark: "J WHATMAN" Soiled, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto: "No 108"

identifier: n0468

provenance: New-York Historical Society