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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 67129, member: 25"]Apart from the use of the unserifed 'f' as an 's' that is as easy to read as modern French, indicating that the atlas these maps were published in was not likely to be any earlier than the early 18th C, many years after the original plates mare made. Re-using old maps was normal practice until the pace of change in the 18th C and improvements in surveying made the old maps obsolete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 67129, member: 25"]Apart from the use of the unserifed 'f' as an 's' that is as easy to read as modern French, indicating that the atlas these maps were published in was not likely to be any earlier than the early 18th C, many years after the original plates mare made. Re-using old maps was normal practice until the pace of change in the 18th C and improvements in surveying made the old maps obsolete.[/QUOTE]
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