Which preposition to use with maps
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.
© 30Sep31; A43117. Robert J. Casey (A); 8May59; R236317. CASNER, MABEL B. Exploring American history, by Mabel B. Casner and Ralph H. Gabriel, Maps by George Bell.
A map under glass was just before him.
I had correspondence with the Treasury on the scale to be adopted for the Maps of the British Survey.
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.
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.
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.
Kayor or Cayor appears on our maps above an hundred miles up the Senegal, and on its north side, which therefore can have no reference to the place in the text.
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.