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    "title": "Ireland, from the best authorities",
    "description": "Published by one of America's leading atlas publishers ten years before Ireland's potato famine, this map depicts a country blossoming with population growth and urban development. A sidebar lists the population of the major towns in each province. Dublin was, by far, the most populous city, with over 250,000 residents, while the second largest, Limerick, was only one quarter of Dublin's size. The total population of Ireland at this point was nearly eight million. There is no evidence on this map of the famine which struck in 1845. By 1851, the population had been reduced by two million due to a combination of starvation, disease, and immigration.",
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        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Relief shown by shading and hachures.",
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