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the parallelism is almost perfect, Labrador and New 
Foundland fitting into the bay of Biscay, while the pla- 
teau on which are the British islands, and whose bound- 
ary is the one hundred fathom line, fits with some ap- 
proach to accuracy into the opening of Baffin’s bay. 
These peculiarities are well shown on the map of the 
world on Mercator’s projection, which is found in all 
modern school atlases. 
FIG. 1. 
Looking at other parts of the world, we notice several 
‘other parallelisms. New Zealand on its western shore 
is almost the exact reverse of Australia, although one 
_ thousand miles away. ‘Tasmania fits pretty well on the 
southern corner of Australia, and Papua, or New Guinea, 
on the north side. Madagascar agrees better with the 
north side of Australia than with the coast of Africa. 
The east and west shores of Baffin’s bay are singularly 
parallel. 
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