Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-10-07
Mark Twain's War Map.

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Mark Twain publishes In the Buf.
falo Express his first war map. His
explanation Is better than his map.
Here Il Is:
TO THE READER.
The above map explains itself.
The idea Of this map is not origin.
al with me, but IL Is borrowed from
the Tribune and other metropolitan
journals. ........ ......
claim no other merit for this pro-
duction or may so call ~ than that
IL Is accurate. The main blemish of
the city maps, OF which IL Is an imi>
tation, Is, that In them more atten>
tion seems to be paid to artistic pic-
turesqueness than geographical reli-
ability.
Inasmuch that this is the first time
that ! ever tried to draft and engrave
map, or attempt anything In the
lire OF art at all, the concentrations
the work has received and the admi-
ration 1t has excited among the peo-
pie, have been very gratful to my
feelings. And 1t IL touching to re-
fleet that by far the most enthusi As.
tic of these have come from people
who know nothing ut all about IL.
BY an unimportant oversight I
have engraved the map so that It reads
wrong end first, except to leithandcd
ncvpie. forgot that In order to
make IL right in print IL should be
drawn and engraved upside down.
However, let the student who desires
to contemplate the map stand on his
head or mold 10 before his looking
glass, That will bring IL right.
The reader will comprehend it Mt n
glance that that piece of river with
the High Bridge" over IL got left
out tn one side by reason Of slip OF
craving tool, which rendered it nec~
essary to change the entire course of
the river Rhine or else spoil the map.
After having spent two days I'm dig
ging and gouging at the map, / void
have changed the course of the Allan.
tic Ocean before / would have lost so
much work.
/ never had so much trouble with
anything I'm my life as I did with
this map. had heaps of little fort.
iflcations scattered all around Paris
ut first, but every now and then my
instruments would slip and fetch
away whole miles OF batteries, and
leave the vicinity rs clean as III the
Prussians had been there.
The reader will find IL well to
frame this map for future reference,
so that II may aid I'm extending pop
ular intelligence and dispelling the
wide spread ignorance of the day.
MARK TWAIN.
OFFICIAL CONCENTRATIONS.
1t Is the only map of the kind /
ever saw. TT. \. GRANT.
1t places the situation In an entire
ly new light. BISMARCK.
l cannot look upon II without shed.
ding tears. BRIGHAM Young.
1t is very nice, large print.
- My wife was for years afflicted with
freekles. and although everything
was done for her relief that could be
done, all was In vain. But, sir, since
the first glance at your map they
have entirely left her. She has noths
Ing but commissions now.
.-... ... j. SMITH.
IF / had had this map, could
have got out of Metz without any
trouble. BAZINE.
L have seen a great many maps In
my time but none that this reminds
me Of. TRocHU.
1t Is but fair to say that In some
respects IL Is trurly remarkable
map. w. II. SHERMAN,
| said to my son Frederick William
III you could only make a map like
that, l would be perfectly willing to
see you die--even anxious.
WILLIAMIII.