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The Petition of John Adair Geographer
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Adair, John (b.1660, d.1718)
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Notes that Parliament has taken 'into their consideration the great use and necessity of exact mapps & descriptiones of the sea-coasts and isles of Scotland ... [and] It is humbly represented that exact mapps and descriptiones of the sea coasts are the greatest means to invite fforaigners to trade upon our coasts' ... therefore he requests that an examination be made of the impositione 'that the work in hand especiallie the surveying of the River of Clyde may be gone about and to give warrand to the committee to order such soumes of money for your petitioner's use as shall be thought fitt ...'.
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Notes that Parliament has taken 'into their consideration the great use and necessity of exact mapps & descriptiones of the sea-coasts and isles of Scotland ... [and] It is humbly represented that exact mapps and descriptiones of the sea coasts are the greatest means to invite fforaigners to trade upon our coasts' ... therefore he requests that an examination be made of the impositione 'that the work in hand especiallie the surveying of the River of Clyde may be gone about and to give warrand to the committee to order such soumes of money for your petitioner's use as shall be thought fitt ...'.
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