MAPS AS GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS 489 
notices a traveler, among the thousands who travel, furnished 
with a map of the district that he is traversing, even though it 
may be unfamiliar to him. The railroad diagrams, given on 
time-table ‘‘folders,” are hardly to be reckoned among maps, 
as they are nearly always greatly distorted for the sake of 
bringing the line and the stations of the company that pub- 
lishes them distinctly before the traveler's eye. Moreover, 
they omit nearly all indication of physical features; any sign 
of relief that is introduced is badly drawn. Yet a good map 
greatly increases the pleasure and diminishes the fatigue of 
travel to one who is intellectually active enough to take interest 
in novel surroundings. The name of a river and its course up 
and down stream, the places that are near but not on the route 
followed, the further extent of physical features that are partly 
in sight from the car windows; all these matters deserve 
recognition at the time of passing them. A student who has 
had some experience of really good maps will go further than 
simply supplying himself with the best maps he can now find 
of his line of travel; he will be so discontent with those that 
he can ordinarily get in this country that he will contribute 
towards building up a demand for better maps. 
These grouped sheets are simply invaluable in teaching. 
Students and visiting teachers alike are so ready in their appre- 
ciation and praise of them as materials for geographical teach- 
ing that I urge the introduction of their use by all who wish to 
make vivid impressions of the fundamental facts of the science 
of geography. Ata later date the examples here given will be 
supplemented by briefer accounts of others from Norway, Swe- 
den, Austria, Italy, etc. 
The following accounts of a number of grouped sheets are 
arranged according to countries, rather than according to the 
features that they represent, as the former plan seems more con- 
venient for the use of teachers and students to whom this paper 
is addressed. At the beginning of the series for each country 
is the official name of the survey from which the map sheets 
