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M. RECLUS’S GREAT GLOBE 
A CCORDING to Professor Elisee 
^ Reclus’s recent paper, read before 
the Royal Geographical Society, he is 
still bent on the production of a great 
globe. Cartography, Professor Reclus 
says, has done fairly well, but the globe 
as we have made it amounts to little or 
nothing. Make a globe six or twelve 
feet in circumference, and then the 
loftiest peak of the Himalayas is only 
represented by one twenty-hfth of an 
inch in height—a mere nothing, hardly 
perceptible. As to other fairly tall ele¬ 
vations, they would not be indicated 
at all. Pseudo relief-maps, Reclus says, 
are, for the major part, silly exaggera¬ 
tions, magnifying what are the actual 
elevations. When a globe is constructed 
large enough to show at least one- 
millionth part of the earth in real pro¬ 
portions then we may try to represent 
heights and depths as well as the plan- 
imetric dimensions. Even then high¬ 
lands of 3,000 feet would barely appear, 
but when we made summits of 10,000 or 
12,000 feet these would be distinctly 
visible. A huge globe on the scale of 
I to 100,000 is what M. Reclus wants. 
A skilled Swiss cartographer and relief- 
maker proposes making such a relief 
of Switzerland, and it is possible that it 
will be shown at the coming Paris Exhibi¬ 
tion. What the distinguished geographer 
wishes to bring about is a co-operative 
plan for the construction of such a globe, 
each country to produce its own section, 
keeping to the proportions of the Swiss 
one. Then at some time in the future all 
the parts are to be joined in one har¬ 
monious whole. Of course, there will 
be many gaps. Looking over the re¬ 
ports of the (jeographical Society rela¬ 
tive to this gigantic globe, the exact size, 
in fact, of it is not mentioned. Mr. 
Alfred Russel Wallace long ago pro¬ 
posed a hollow globe, but, as it would 
have to be seen from the inside, we 
think details would escape observers. 
How insignificant would be the Eiffel 
Tower alongside of this huge ball, if it is 
ever to be constructed! and a Eerris 
Wheel would be but as a child’s hoop. 
Geography and cartography have nota¬ 
bly improved since Dean Swift’s time, 
wTen he wrote:— 
“Geographers in Afiic maps 
With savage pictures fill their gaps 
And o’er inhabitable downs 
Place elephants for want of towns.” 
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