"His observatory was then a small, round building, and in it was a small telescope; he had drawn a map of a group of stars, one of which he supposed was not a star, but the planet.

Here they have been forming their Ententes and Alliances, carrying on their diplomatic cabals and intrigues, studying the map and adjusting the Balance of Powerall, of course, with the best intentionsand lo!

The General, upon learning from me that the streamwhich was only eight or nine miles longhad no name, took out his map and located it, and named it Cody's Creek, which name it still bears.

I spent all my evenings, when at home, in making a map of the country.

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.

I spread the map of Africa before him, and tracing a line from Cairo to Sennaar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored.

In front of our heavy mahogany table, attentively examining some maps and charts that had been scattered there, was my Uncle Jason. VIII

(Rand McNally indexed pocket map) © 28Jul22, A682194.

" He bent forward again, folding his arms on the ledge of the apron, studying the streets and consulting an astonishingly accurate mental map of Paris which more than once had stood him in good stead in other times.

" "Have ye got that map by you, miss?"

I had prepared a map of its track, in which an important error of the Berliner Jahrbuch (arising from neglect of the earth's oblateness) was corrected.

He is said to have brought a map of the world home with him, in which all parts of the earth were described, by which the enterprizes of Don Henry for discovery were much assisted.

If Livingstone had lived a few weeks longer and been able to travel, he and not Giraud would have given us the true map of Bangweolo.

He shows that the Utopian, though benevolent project, ascribed to Henry, of establishing an everlasting peace by revising the map of Europe and constituting a political equilibrium between the several European powers, never in fact existed in the king's mind, nor even in Sully's, whom he equally divests of much unfounded glory and fictitious greatness.

A soldier who can read such a map has thereby acquired a knowledge and a habit which are of the greatest value to him, both in manoeuvres and in the field.

Behind the desk, where sat Dr. S, was hung up a missionary map of the world, drawn on canvas, and illuminated from behind.

With genuine German inquisitiveness Herr Presber hunted through the various cupboards and drawers in his room and found a map of France as it was before the loss of Alsace-Lorraine.

He had seen the map on the table, and the place couldn't be more than four miles away.

The Marshal unrolled a great map of the country and spread it upon the table.

MAPS AND FINDING THE WAY Every Ski runner going across country should carry a map.

How the colouring of the maps has changed since I went to school, and yet once more a great 'unrest of colour' is about to change the map of Europe.

Every school of every grade ought, as a part of its ordinary geography lessons, to teach the pupils to understand, to read, and to use the ordnance maps of Great Britain, and that this should be the case has already been recognised by the Board of Education.

By the window stands a square pine table, spotted and streaked with ink, to match the floor, which resembles in a homely way MARK TWAIN'S map of Paris on an enlarged scale.

As the evening meal was not yet ready, the missionary folded the map and fell to musingmusing of the future he had marked out for himself; enjoying the sweet approval of his conscience, higher and purer than any enjoyment of earth.

Kitchener had a narrow escape of it (one of his fellow officers was shot dead close by him), but he went calmly ahead and completed his maps, splendid large-scale affairs which have never since been equaledand which are now in use by the Turkish and German armies!