Which preposition to use with map
We are entering an historic period of reconstruction, when new maps of the world will be drawn.
He thinks he can wipe our good friend Pearlie off the map by having her name dropped from the Millford 'Mercury,' forgetting that there are other ways of reaching the public eye.
Not in Propria Persona, Seignior, but by Speculation, I have, and made most considerable Remarks on that incomparable Terra Firma, of which I have the compleatest Map in Christendomand which Gonzales himself omitted in his Cosmographia of the Lunar Mundus.
He had seen the map on the table, and the place couldn't be more than four miles away.
I have preferred to show that Prince Edward Island was not known as an island and did not appear on any map for one hundred years after John Cabot's death.
In the midst of these conditions the fighting airman shoots, dodges, pursues, and dives, intent only on one thing, the destruction of his enemy, while the observer photographs, marks his map with every gun-emplacement, railway station, dump of food or ammunition, unconcerned by the flying shells or the strange dives and swoops of the machine.
It is shown on Schwatka's map as a peninsula, and called by him Richtofen Rocks.
The Lokinga Mountains, which he mapped to the south of the lake, have not been found by later explorers.
And turning to a map of Europe, and measuring out four hundred and thirty miles by scale on a slip of paper, she tried it up and down the map from point to point.
I strained my eye to no purpose, to follow the indentations of the coast, according to the map before me; the great bays and promontories could alone be perceived.
He gave us coffee and showed us maps at his Brigade Headquarters and then sent us on to the Regimental Headquarters, further down the hill, where they gave us rum punch, believing, as all Italians do, that an Englishman is never happy unless he is drinking alcohol.
A map under glass was just before him.
Order followed order, and soon the gig, with the captain, Trendon, and the torpedo expert, was driving for the point marked "Seal Cave" on the map over which they were bent.
When I first saw this central garden, the most extensive and regular of all the bee-pastures of the State, it seemed all one sheet of plant gold, hazy and vanishing in the distance, distinct as a new map along the foot-hills at my feet.
Rammy here, and you and I could trade the chosen people off the map between us.
In 1842 Redcar was a mere village, though more apparent on the map than Saltburn; but, like its neighbour, it has grown into a great watering-place, having developed two piers, a long esplanade other features, which I am glad to leave to those for whom they were made, and betake myself to the more romantic spots so plentiful in this broad county.
The heights which could be reached were therefore measured with the barometer, and the position of the points at which the observations were taken referred to existing maps without any attempt to correct their errors.
The above two corrections the British commissioner is authorized to make on his maps after his return to England.
I carry a map around these days as if I were an army officer.
Peshawur, with its crowded streets, its open bazaars, its balconied houses of mud bricks built into wooden frames, lay mapped beneath them.
I became much interested in my new found friend, and had him continue his map down the river.
A book, great or small, is then to us a great evil; and putting a map into one's pocket is about as absurd as Peter Fin's taking Cook's Voyages on his journey to Brighton.
I began to get discouraged in the hard days of last month, when day after day I was obliged to retreat the Allied flags on the frontier, and when the Russian offensive fell down, I simply tore the map off the wall, and burned it, flags and all.
"Sweating all over he eased the map out of his pocket and slowly and silently commenced to eat it.
If, with a surveying instrument, you put in on a piece of ground a lot of stakes, each one of which is exactly the same height above sea levelthat is, run a line of levelsthen make a map showing the locution of the stakes, a line drawn on the map through all the stake positions is a contour and shows the position of all points of that particular height.