Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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HISTORY I.- The map due on Friday, May 8, need not be handed in until Monday...
...maps of South America, said the speaker, are some of them relevant to the subject in hand; others are irrelevant. Of the former there are four classes. The first class sets the boundary of Guiana at the Essequibo River; the others vary largely in their conclusions. Of the set which places the boundary at the Essequibo we have five maps-an American atlas (1796), a Paris map (1781), a London atlas, published the year of the cession of Guiana to England, a French geographer's map (1803), and a Caracas map of obscure and doubtful origin...
GEOLOGY 1.- Each man will please bring his Weather Map book to the Laboratory today...
...Walter Map write the Arthurian legends which usually pass under his name...
Professor Macvane then spoke of the knowledge of the subject of the boundary which the maps give. He chose sixty-eight maps out of a much larger number and classified them. There is a difference of opinion in almost all of them which were published before 1814, when the Dutch still had a claim on the territory. About sixteen of the most reliable map makers put the boundary at Cape Nassau. One of our secretaries of state has said that this is a simple matter of historical evidence, but it is not a subject on which conclusive evidence is easy...