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Book Review Essays

William Roy: still an enigmatic figure in Scots cartography

General William Roy 1726–1790: father of the Ordnance Survey, by Humphrey Welfare, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Press, 2022, 303 pp. + xiv, £90.00, ISBN 978-1-3995-0578-9 (hardback), 978-1-3995-0581-9 (epub)

Pages 551-556 | Received 03 Feb 2023, Accepted 06 Feb 2023, Published online: 20 Feb 2023

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