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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



The History of Map-making.— The Presi- 

 dent of the American Geographical Society, 

 Judge Daly, in an address on the history of 

 map-making previous to the time of Mer- 

 cator, expi^essed his belief that the carto- 

 graphic art is as old as, or even older than, 

 the invention of the alphabet. The earliest 

 map or topographical design extant, so far 

 as we know, is the ground-plan of the town 

 of Susa (in the Bible Shushan). This is 

 assumed to date from the seventh century 

 before our era. According to Strabo, Anax- 

 imander (born 612 b. c.) first represented 

 the world in a map. The earth at that time 

 was held to be a flat, circular plain entirely 

 surrounded by the ocean-river. Greece was 

 in the center of the plain. The great cen- 

 tral sea of the inhabited region was the 

 Mediterranean. The farthest point known 

 on the west was the Pillars of Hercules 



