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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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llgreater accuracy, system, and uniformity, than is here contained. In this map the portion keyed to include Alaska serves as anadmirable reminder that these upper boundaries are to be connected inones mind. Here also we see the advantage of the redundant sections—the spare room where we can repeat a continent to show ocean boundaries,a device advantageously enjoyed by Mercators map and this onejointly. This is a device for which also there is precedent and a mentalhabit formed by all those Mho see and use Mercators map. One can conceive a map with the loljc and a half carrying the NewAVorld arranged on a pi^ot which can he swung around and keyed into AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW LAND MAP OF THE WORLD. 463 the two and a half lobes of the Old World—thus having a Aerysymmetrical four-lobed map instead of three lobes and two half lobes.(See Figure 11.) Again, the Oceanic or split lobe could be divided into a serrated edgecorresponding to the international time boundary—each full lobe repre-
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G. 10.—Scheme No. 3, 5° intervals. Conic projectioa tangent to 45° N, and S. from 25° N. and S. to 80° N, and S.From 25° N. to 25° S. the projection is arbitrary and accommodating. senting six hours of time. Or the entire circuit can be printed withnecessary repeats, but the Avorld once round could be coloured and therepeats plain. Or again, the Avorld could be printed with repeats colouredand lettered in full, and a pivoted mask could be attached to block outone-third of the entire circuit and so show no more than the whole worldat one time. 464 SCOTTISH GEOGKAPHICAL MAGAZINE. Another variation for American use would be to repeat the NewZealand and Asiatic lobe and a half with the American meridian centraland vertical. Australians could print their maps from another angle andXew Zealanders from still another. This map was no sooner finished than I realised how it could be verymaterially improved—made entirely logical and mathematical as well aspractical, and like philosophi

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