. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ere pressing on to the finding of a new heavenand a new earth. It is our one achievement in the course ofthat long preparation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centviriesfor Columbus and Da Gama and Magellan. 4. Lastly, the Hereford Map of 1275-1:500 is a great picture. Theas it were, of vulgar English ideas of the world in the later mappaMiddle Ages. Our maps of earlier times, with few exceptions,
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ere pressing on to the finding of a new heavenand a new earth. It is our one achievement in the course ofthat long preparation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centviriesfor Columbus and Da Gama and Magellan. 4. Lastly, the Hereford Map of 1275-1:500 is a great picture. Theas it were, of vulgar English ideas of the world in the later mappaMiddle Ages. Our maps of earlier times, with few exceptions, mere sketches: this thirteenth-century Mappa Mundi isat least an attempt to represent the whole world, with the mainfeatures, the people and the products of each country, on a greatsciile. 488 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. But its faults are like an oeean in which its few merits aresoon lost. Unless we possessed some evidence, in Arabicdrawings, that a worse parody of geography were possihlc, itwould be hard for a modern to believe that anything wilder thanthe Hereford ilap had ever been tried in plan or chart. In thisshort space it is only possible to say that almost everything is. THE 311X1) Cathedral.) cither legendary or grotesi|iicly misapplied. The true sha]K> ottlu^ Mc(hterranean and of the Northern seas, of each one of theEuropean countries, disappears as much as that of Asia orAfrica. And the farther we get from England, the larger growthe legendary figiues, the IMinotanrs and Gog-magogs of Tartary,the , dog-faced, tiai)-eared monsters of the far East,
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