Scottish geographical magazine . ating. 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
Scottish geographical magazine . ating. 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 philosophies, religions and governments, made to suitthe world as the world actually is. This has been the object throughout:not to impose an artificial scheme of co-ordinates on the globe, as. Fig. 11.—Map with four lobes, modified from Fig. 10. though the world were nothing but lines of latitude and longitude—asystem which might do very Avell on some other planet than ours. The defects of the map shown in Figure 10 are not serious, and it ispossible that the next refinement may overstep the mark, and whilebeing more accurate, more logical, and more scientific, may lack thesimplicity that makes for popularity. The weakest points in this map are in the regions of the Equator asit recedes E. and W. from the four axial meridians. The lines of longi-tude, 65° E. and 25° W., should be no longer from Pole to Pole than thecentral one, 20° E., which runs through the centre of Africa. This erroris all the more mSirked for being concentrated in the central curvedportion of the meridians. A glance at the Asiatic division (where thenetwork of co-ordinates is visible throughout) shows us that the outer- AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW LAND MAP OF THE WORLD. 4
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