Other maps of writers give his journeyings both ways as following the old Santa Fe trail, which runs northeast and southwest along the Cimarron River, through the southeast corner of Colorado.
For the most part they are too small even for inclusion on standard-sized maps of the world.
A way thither was at last made known by two brothers named Mallet, who with six companions went up the Platte to its South Fork, which they called River of the Padoucas,--a name given it on some maps down to the middle of this century.
Government maps and surveys of the country between the Missouri and the Rocky Mountains visited by the brothers La Vérendrye; and I have received from Captain Bourke, and also from Mr. E.
However, in no whit daunted by the prospect of a little research work, Bob had had recourse to the land maps in the office.
It is well for the world at large that Watt’s maps and quadrants remained on his hands unsold.
Beyond a few packing-cases, a turner's lathe, and a shelf laden with dissected maps of Europe, the interior of the shop is entirely unfurnished.
She made raised maps in clay, so that I could feel the mountain ridges and valleys, and follow with my fingers the devious course of rivers.
When she felt the maps and blackboards she asked, "Do men go to school?
Though much of the information through the maps which they constructed was strikingly inaccurate, their work is none the less interesting to the student of historical geography.
It will be noted that the maps in each of these globe pictures have been reversed.
A geographical tract of John Schöner of Carlstadt, extracted from various books and maps with much care and diligence and arranged for a recently elaborated globe, being a description of the earth.
It is the idea set forth in the Portuguese maps, such as the Cantino and the Canerio; it is the idea which we find represented in the Waldseemüller maps and practically in all the Lusitano-Germanic maps of the period.
In the year 1578 he issued his revised edition of the so-called Ptolemy maps, and eight years later these same maps again, revised with the complete text of Ptolemy's work on geography.
Text in German and English, the maps in facsimile.
If the makers of planemaps became now increasingly active, so the makers of globes were becoming increasingly numerous, and at first in the countries of trans-alpine Europe.
In the chapter on Great Explorers and The Foundation of Geography, in the body of the book, much might have been said about maps and map-making, for the Thirteenth Century was a great period in this matter.
Lecoy de la Marche among his studies of the Thirteenth Century has included a volume of a collection of the maps of the Thirteenth Century.
One of the great maps of the Thirteenth Century, that on the Cathedral wall of Hereford, deserves a place here.
If it wasn't for that, of course we should be worrying with maps the whole time.
They may study maps beforehand to guide them, showing any difficulties and dangers in the journey, but they may not carry such helps.
On the maps Send looks like a single tiny village, south of Woking by half a mile.
It must have covered many more miles than the maps allow it to-day.
In the Ordnance Maps, Bagshot Heath is placed south of Bagshot; in the old maps of the county, the Heath lies to the north and north-east, and would merge into what is now Chobham Common.
On the old estate maps it is Novel's Oak; Novel, perhaps, was a yeoman farmer.
This road can be followed parallel to the old Way for a long distance, running from church to church under the chalk ridge; and it is this road which is marked in the maps as the Pilgrims' Way.
But that is only guessing; the line on the maps tempts it.
The Ordnance Mapsmark a hill north of Ewhurst of which the country children have never heard.
Hakluyt engaged to write descriptions of the plates, and his geographical touches are easily recognizable in the maps of both Virginia and Florida.
A third cause of the defeat was the utter untrustworthiness of the maps of the district, although Natal had for two generations been a British colony, and though a considerable British garrison had for years been stationed in Ladysmith.
Tied him up here, and last saw him blowing clouds of steam out of his nose on to one of those maps which show interesting forms of vegetable life with their Latin names underneath.
Enormous maps were produced, and we all stood and listened.
Accurately speaking, it is not a map, but a picture; but as many of the old maps are more or less in the same category, we need not exclude it on that account.
It is not every one who can afford to belong to the society, or who wishes to handle the maps in large sheets.
He engraved maps and a few views from his own designs.
Up to a recent date the maps here represented had not been reproduced in any form, and the originals were beyond the reach of all but the few.
The arms in the corner on the two oldest extant maps are those of James I.
Copies of the mapsare not rare, and can be seen at the British Museum and elsewhere.
In his notes on Old London Maps in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vol.
It is, in fact, a part of one of a set of eighteenth-century maps based on that of Agas, and not only differing from it in detail, but also differing slightly one from another.
The maps here given are the best examples of those extant, and are chosen as each being representative of a special period.
Elizabeth, it has been conjectured that the maps are themselves copies of a later edition, wherein the arms were altered in conformity with conventional opinion.
The wonderful delicacy of Norden's work makes these mapspeculiarly appreciated by students of London cartography.
The engraving of the Middlesex maps was done by Peter Van den Keere.
Besides the maps properly so called, there are some smaller views of parts of London, all of which are included in the Survey.
Being on a very small scale, these maps are not so attractive as some that have been already discussed.
Drawing maps | The drawing of maps} is a useful exercise.
Compare these mapswith those [= the maps] on the blackboard.
The second of our maps will give an approximate idea of the appearance which these singular formations present.
But their wonderfulness consisted in the insertion upon the walls of illuminated plans and maps of the heavens.
The first of our mapsshows all those that have been seen in a long series of observations.
The mountainous region to the north and east they inscribed on theirmaps as a large white vacant space, which they coolly named "Winterberg.
They found here the Micmac Indians, who were then reputed to be quite intelligent, knowing the points of the compass and position of the stars, and having rude maps of their country and a knowledge of the cross.
The Roman maps were prepared for Professor William F.
Taking these two typical maps as our starting-point, we shall be able to judge of the magnitude of the discoveries of modern times.
I have seen a small geography which had crude mapsof all the countries, including the Confederate States, but omitting the United States.
It is hoped that themaps inserted in the text will assist in making clear this point.
Notice on the mapsthat the Republican strongholds are now in the white counties.
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