Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . This projection,of course, does not aud is not intended to give a na-tural representation of the earth, its effect l>eing toexaggerate the polar regions immensely. Tlie dis-tortion in the form of countries and relative directionof places, is rectitied Ijy the degrees of latitude be-ing made to increase proportionalily to those oflongitude. This is the only maj) which gives an un-briiken view of the whole surface of the earth. Theterm wf/is specially ap])licd to reiireseiitalions ofland, or lauii and water together; while
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . This projection,of course, does not aud is not intended to give a na-tural representation of the earth, its effect l>eing toexaggerate the polar regions immensely. Tlie dis-tortion in the form of countries and relative directionof places, is rectitied Ijy the degrees of latitude be-ing made to increase proportionalily to those oflongitude. This is the only maj) which gives an un-briiken view of the whole surface of the earth. Theterm wf/is specially ap])licd to reiireseiitalions ofland, or lauii and water together; while that of Ihirtis limited to the coast and water surface only, show-ing currents, rocks, anchorage, light-liouses, har-bors, soundings, aud other objects of importance. A geographical map proper is a general iiuip ofthe world, or of a large extent of country. .*V topo-graphical map dilTers from it in being limited in area,and much more detailed. The ordnance survey ofBritain is a good example of a topographical purely geographical and topographical Fig. in motion a given circumference so long asthe current jiassing in the eleetro-magnet of the reg-ister kept the armature attracted : when the currentwas broken, the pen. drawn laterally by the arma-ture, traced a hook, and connected with the prece-ding circumference by a curve, the form of whichdepended on the relative velocities of the cylinder andthe pen,and finally, the armature being arrested by acatch which limits its course, the pen traced a newcircumference a little distant from the 1. If the current was re-estal)lished at the endof a certain time, the armature was attracted pen traced a second hook, and was replaced onthe original circumference of which it continued theothers are constructed for special purposes, which j trace. The two hooks obtained indicate the instantsmay be physical, political or civil, military, statistic-! when the breaking and the closing were pr
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