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is all additional to the compositor's price per page ; for the 
printer, as all editors know, makes no allowance for the space 
occupied by illustrations. These considerations lead me to 
suggest the following plan, which will in most cases serve 
sufficiently well the purpose stated, and by which the heavy 
expense referred to above may be practically eliminated. 
If we take the map of Ireland with the forty division- 
numbers set each in the centre of the area to which it belongs 
(the map in I.N., vol. v., p. 29, will serve the purpose), and 
shift the numbers so as to bring them within a series of 
vertical and horizontal lines (still preserving the relative 
positions as much as possible), the result may be shown by 
ordinar}^ typograph}^ and will appear as follows: — 
|35 
34 
40 
39 
1 
36 
33 
37 
38 
27 
28 
29 
30 
32 
26 
25 
24 
31 
16 
17 
23 
22 
15 
18 
19 
21 
9 
10 1 
14 
20 
8 
7 
11 
13 
2 
12 
1 
4 
5 
6 
3 
Fig. 2. 
It will be seen that here the figure of the country and 
relative positions of the divisions is tolerably closel}^ preserved. 
Omitting the enclosing lines, and using dashes for the blank 
