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Show The Great World Map. Geographers representing tho prln-t Jclpnl nations aro at work upon a map! of tho entlro earth on a scalo of 1 to", 11,000,000, and Professor Pcnck, the.' Gorman geograplior, roports that 69 shoots out of 437 planned hnd been'( ;complctod up to March last. A dls-' tnnco of one mllo will bo represented by a spaco nbout ono-slxteonth of an Inch long. Thoro aro, of course, many maps ot small areas on a much larger scalo than this, but to represent the whole fuco ot tho known world on this scalo is nn undertaking of vast lator-l est. Tit-nits. |