Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pointing out the lack of any natural boundaries separating New England from its neighbors, he said that only about twenty of the sixteen hundred flowering plants of the district could be called characteristic. All of the rest pass freely back and forth over barriers which exist only on the map. The vegetation of a country is the expression of ancestral peculiarities modified by the surroundings. The remote ancestry of our flora was proved by the late Professor Gray to be the same as that of Eastern Asia, and hence many species occur in the Atlantic States which are substantially like...
Below is the list of entries for the road race next Monday. Each contestant will be given a small map of the course to tie on his handle-bars...
...convenience of the classes in developing exercises, two maps of the Gymnasium floor have been made and a regular place is assigned to each man. Some men seem to have made the mistake of thinking that because their names are not on the map they are not entitled to take part in the exercises. This is not the case. Places on the floor are reserved only until the whistle blows; after that any unoccupied place may be taken by the first comer...
...ranges, and of the climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically, yet with some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been able to fulfil...
...existence of such a place is in a book written in 1753 by an explorer and traveller in South America, in which we see that in the centre of Peru there was a town of about 500 inhabitants called Ancon. In 1748 the name Lancon was printed on a map of Peru made in France. This was probably a corruption of La Ancon. Ever since this time there have been frequent references to the city in books and on maps. In 1868 the Lima railroad was built through Ancon, and the town at once became of some prominence. Explorations...