SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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which they were painted or drawn. Map from Mappa, 
meaning cloth, and chart from charta, meaning parch- 
ment. Even toda'y maps are made on cloth when for 
use in the open by cyclists, military men, and so forth, 
and charts are those maps filling the needs of seamen. 
Savage tribes used maps made of horn, bone and wood. 
In the 15th century the first printed maps were made 
and now many processes are used in reproducing these 
valuable and necessary graphic pictures, every line and 
dot of which have been made out of someone's experi- 
ence. The explorer, the pioneer, the navigator, all con- 
tributing to the store of knowledge of the earth's surface, 
and many times having thrilling adventures, surviving ter- 
rible conditions that the earth may be known as it really 
appears. 
Although maps are made to scale and every distance 
computed most accurately by the use of very fine instru- 
ments, Scouts can accomplish the real purpose of maps 
in a small and simple way, for they are after all, but 
guides to those who follow. 
Knowing a delightful road or trail, one can by a map 
guide others to it, or by making a map of a city, or coun- 
try district help a stranger to find his way about. Our 
maps must contain as the all important features: Direc- 
tion, Distance, Points of Identification, and the explana- 
tion on the margin of the map of all symbols or conven- 
tional signs used. For hiking purposes a starting point 
and a goal are necessary, all cross-roads must be indicated 
— streams, bridges, trails, springs, points of interest, van- 
tage points for extended views, and so forth. 
A city map should note beside streets, the car lines or 
bus lines, public buildings, library, churches, hotels, 
stores, police station, public telephone booths, a doctor's 
office, fire alarm box and post box. 
A village map should show in addition the way to the 
