Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20
A STUDY IN OLD MAPS.
The Individuality of the Cartologist
Missing From Modern Charts.
Leo.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
1t is rather pity that modern maps.
like moderrf clothes and modern build
ings-in fact, modern life generally-are
so drab. 1t must have added very much
10 the study of geography to see a coun-
try marked there are canniba,s" and
here are uniforms" and here are an.
thropophagi," and to have pictures of
them The only modern maps of much
interest are those in Kipling's jungle
Book" But have before me an "Orbis
Terrarum Nova ct Accuratissima Tabu-
la, dedicated to Serennissimo Potentis-
simoque Dominic. Domino (rum?) Carolo
Secundo. by jeanne Loom
AT least half the surface of the sheet is
covered by highly colored allegorical pic
tures-the rape of Proserpine by Pluto
the birth apparently of Venus, which
bears strange resemblance to the pic
ture OF Father Thames at the Society of
Arts, and Jupiter and Juno in their char
lot drawn by eagles: the whole is sur
mounted by magnificent royal arms.
AS regards Europe the map is not very
inaccurate, except that Iceland Is shown
as part Of Greenland, and Nova Zemb a
part of Russia But the shape OF North
America is unrecogn.zab,e, while as for
Australia, 1t has no east coast or @ Gems
land at all. melting up into New Guinea
as the east shore of the Gulf of Carpen-
taria- Tasman's Land is about 1000
miles south of Australia near the south
pole. Central Africa is remarkably full
of details of cities. provinces and rivers
| which have not yet been discovered
Another rather interesting map of the
world Is the frontispiece to "A New and
Complete Collection of voyages and Trav-
els >" The whole (accordihg to the
title page describing in the most ac-
curate manner. upon an entire new plan
every place worthy of notice in Europe
Asia, Africa and America, comprising a
full display OF the laws, man.
ETC.. of the different CO ntries of the uni
| verse. Being the result OF I'M
wearied assiduity and the most faithful
researches" &c. John Hamilton Moore
Another beautiful map which I have is
that of the diocese of Aries. with the
most splendid engravings of Avisnon. the
| Pont -du Garde; according to my Evans
| Geographical Grammar 1s09), this is "a
| piece Of architecture SO unaffectedly ele-
giant, that the most phlegmatic spectator
cannot behold it without admiration :
! Another diocesan" map of about 100
| shows Brabant and Flanders, the sea be-
| ing full Of nereids and tritons and fleets
| apparently Dutch) sailing up and bonn
| harding the coast of Kent. This map. is,
It should be added, drawn by Dutch
man. The map of the world in Evans
[ Geographical Grammar" which. by the
| way. is mostly history, is dated 1909. and
except for the changes in spelling not IN
| reasonably wrong. Dieman's Land Is
not as today. Tasmania. but the north
west corner of Australia. while their New
! Guinea doubtless because of the ferocity
of its inhabitants, had only had its west
coast explored. This map is supported
| by kneeling Atlas, and faces a beauti-
! full title page showing the Hindoo myth
| Of world supported by an elephant
standing on a tortoise. l have also two
large terrestrial and celestial globes by
Cary, dated 1916, which are wonderfully
! accurate.