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their rivals in this respect was without doubt a principal aim 

 of their publishers and engravers. The surfaces are filled 

 with carefully drawn and executed compass roses, appropriate 

 types of ships, scenes of native life, navigational instruments, 

 and similar conceptions which appealed to the imagination of 

 their designers. But it is particularly in the lettering that they 

 display the engraver's art at its finest. The italic lettering 

 employed by Hondius has never been excelled for its purpose. 

 These maps, by reason of their content were virtually encyclo- 

 paedias of contemporary geography, and fittingly crown the 

 century of Dutch supremacy in cartography. 



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