READING

Make a plan of the school yard. Allow one
inch for twenty-five feet. Draw lines for the
walks and
gates. Make
dots for trees.
Mark the

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house stands.

_ <A plan of any part of the earth is a map.
- Here is a map of a school

district. One
eighth of an
inch was used
for fifty yards.
On page 8
there is an-
other kind of
map of the
same district.
It is called a
relief map.
Make a map of a part of your school
_district.1 Put in it the brooks, ponds, hills,
_ streets and shores, if there are any.
- You can measure distances by counting the
number of steps it takes to travel each
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- 1If pupils cannot go outdoors to make a map of their
- district, the different members. of the class can doubtless
furnish enough facts for making a simple map indoors.
City pupils can make a plan of a park, or of a few
_ blocks or squares near their school.

 

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29. Reading Maps.

Let us study these four small maps, and
learn what they show.

Find in map I. the City Hall and Post Office.
It.takes about two minutes to walk from one
of these buildings to the other. This map
includes a few streets in the city of New York.

The next map shows the rivers on two
sides of the city, with wharves all along the
water front.

Can you find the City Hall in map H.?
Why is it drawn so small? See how narrow
the streets in this map are made.

Map III. includes several cities. In this
map the streets are shown by very fine lines.
The buildings and wharves no longer appear.
See how far New York extends up the Hudson
river.

Can you find New York on map IV.?
Where is Albany? The distance from New
York to Albany is more than a hundred miles.

What river flows from Albany to New
York? Where are the Catskill mountains?
Where is Brooklyn ?

Why are the streets of New York not
drawn on map IV.? How are the rivers
shown on this map?

These little maps show how the large maps
in this book were made. Can you find New
York on the large map of North America ?

 

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