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Pont Maps of Scotland, ca. 1583-1614

 
Detail of Pont map of Elgin environs

Among the National Library of Scotland's greatest treasures are the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, made by Timothy Pont over 400 years ago, in the 1580s and 1590s.

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