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Identifier: scottishgeograph15scotuoft (find matches)
Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ustomary in such an atlas, and Dr.Schmidt contributes the text which explains the figures he has chosen. The sheetshowing pictures and maps of typical landscapes is a useful one, but the necessityfor using the map tints for the landscapes has spoilt their colour effect. Themaps, too, should have been arranged so that their north and south or east andwest corresponded with those of the pictures. The temperature maps are rathercrowded. Special attention is paid to the Alps and to Austria-Hungary. Onevery beautiful physical map showing the Austrian Alps deserves special com-mendation for its workmanship and for the absence of all names, and the use ofonly small initial capitals for the highest mountains. The use of such names asMercia, Westsex, Ostangein, and Northxonberland stretching south to York, on themap of the British Isles is misleading, and should be reserved for a historicalatlas. It is not customary in this country to call the north-western Highlands theCaledonian mountains. I
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