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Title: Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Maltby, Albert Elias, 1850-1924
Subjects: Block diagrams
Publisher: New York : E.L. Kellogg & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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3 inches northward from D, andMN = 3 inches eastward from M. Draw the lines MN, NC andBH. Describe the arc AE with / as a center and AI as theradius. Draw the outline of the continent, and then model the mapaccording to the directions given for the work upon NorthAmerica. It will be noticed that Africa is the largest of the con-tinents, after Asia. It has a uniform contour, and consists of onegreat elevated plateau. There are no great, connected mountainsystems. Its plan of structure combines that of the Old Worldand of the New. In form the continent resembles South America, but theprimary mountains are found in the eastern instead of in thewestern part. Model the main peaks of these mountains, Keniaand Kilma Njaro. Of the two ranges on either side of the Vic-toria Nyanza, the western or Ruwenzori range is that which wasanciently called The Mountains of the Moon. The secondary m^ountain ranges are the Atlas, the Cameroons,and the Snow mountains. Model these mountains in 2:>osition,
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Fig. 53.pulp map of south america. Modeling in Paper Pulp. 119 and mark the general slope of the continent from south to north,as shown in the basin of the river Nile, extending over 30 degreesof latitude. Trace this river in position, and also the Congo, AL-^L

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