p. 13 | NEW MAP OF PORTO RICO

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 11, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 15.

NEW MAP OF PORTO RICO.

"THE shape of Porto Rico on our maps is aggressively square, unnaturally mathematical, and is an exception among islands, which are apt to be of most irregular shape," says the Scientific American, "and our new possession is now being charted anew, and the appearance of it on the new maps will be something of a surprise. The appearance of the east coast line will be profoundly modified. Before a twelvemonth will have elapsed, the shape of the queer parallelogram will be changed. The straight up and down east boundary will prove to slope off gradually to the northeast. It is considered that this error in the shape of the island was due partly to lack of scientific knowledge on the part of the Spaniards and partly to a desire to keep commercial rivals at a distance."