p. 194 | A REMARKABLE MAP

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1882

A REMARKABLE MAP.

At the school of the nobles in Tokio, Japan, is a physical map of that country, 300 or 400 feet long, in the court behind the school-building. This map, or model, is made of turf and rock, and is bordered with pebbles, which look, at a little distance, so much like water. Every inlet, river, and mountain, is reproduced in this model with a fidelity to detail, which is simply wonderful. Latitude and longitude are indicated by telegraph wires, and tablets show the position of the cities. Ingenious devices are employed in illustrating botanical studies also. For example, the pine is illustrated by a picture showing the cone, leaf and dissected flower, set in a frame which shows the bark and longitudinal and transverse sections of the wood.