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Europe, then we may hope to see geography promoted from a 
mere unmeaning and idle catalogue of names and boundaries 
to be a useful branch of study and of scientific training. 
Hardly, if at all, second is the great relief map of New- 
York by Ward of Rochester, which leaves little to be desired. 
To stand and study this is an education in itself. It is as if 
one were elevated in a balloon and gifted with more than tel- 
escopic eyesight. All the great physical features of the Em- 
pire state lie spread out before the eye. The two mountain 
regions of the Adirondack^ and the Catskills are prominent; 
and the gorges of the Hudson, Niagara, and Genesee, and 
lakes Chautauqua, George, Champlain, and Ontario, the St. 
Lawrence and Mohawk. Hudson and Genesee rivers, the 
great trap ridge forming the Palisades, Long Island, with New 
York harbor, all combine to present a picture which conveys, 
especially to those unaccustomed to such bird's-e} T e views, a 
lesson in geography which is not readily forgotten. The only 
regret felt on looking on it is that in some way or other its 
maker did not contrive to indicate by color the geologic 
system of the strata that make the state, an addition which 
would have given it in the eyes of the geologist a value as 
great as that which it now possesses for the geographer. 
Close by the map of New York stands another about as 
large, but not so well executed, and absolutely without name 
or reference, a fact which reminds one of the chief omission 
throughout the Exhibition. 
Alongside of the two above-mentioned maps hangs the 
geological map of Kansas, seemingly quite away from its 
connections. 
In the Mines and Mining building the State of Minnesota 
has a series of 20 maps constructed by the Geological survey, 
showing all the natural features of its surface, as well as the 
principal climatic characteristics. Another, also contributed 
by the state survey, exhibits the aboriginal geography and 
the French explorations. Specially noteworthy in this ex- 
hibit is the series of contoured topographical maps which 
bring out admirably the outline features of the surface. 
Mr. H. ('. Frick, of Homestead, has on exhibition a large 
relief map of the Connellsville coke region with a section. 
The map is not geologically colored, but is intended merely 
