Scottish geographical magazine . <Xl^. -^j^-t-z; THE SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW LAND MAP OF THE AYORLD. By Bernard J. S. Cahill,Associate American Institute of Architects. (JJHh Maps and Diagrams.) If some one should suggest that it was about time to rearrange theletters of the alphabet—to begin, let us say, with the letter E, followedby the vowels in the order of their use, then the gutturals, labials,dentals, and sibilants, and so on until we ended with the aspirate—hecould hardly be guilty of a more repugnant innovation in the eyes ofmost men, than if he proposed
Scottish geographical magazine . <Xl^. -^j^-t-z; THE SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW LAND MAP OF THE AYORLD. By Bernard J. S. Cahill,Associate American Institute of Architects. (JJHh Maps and Diagrams.) If some one should suggest that it was about time to rearrange theletters of the alphabet—to begin, let us say, with the letter E, followedby the vowels in the order of their use, then the gutturals, labials,dentals, and sibilants, and so on until we ended with the aspirate—hecould hardly be guilty of a more repugnant innovation in the eyes ofmost men, than if he proposed a new map of the world to supplantMercators. But while nothing much is to be gained by adopting amore logical alphabet, there is very much to be gained by inventing andadopting a more accurate projection of the world than Mercators. Mercators chart is comparatively a very recent achievement. It waspublished in 1569, and is therefore just 340 years old this year. In itsday its appearance marked an epoch in the history and pr
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