Friday, August 12, 2005
Maps
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, chapter Changed Times:
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I have always been fond of maps, and can voyage in an atlas with the greatest enjoyment. The names of places are singularly inviting; the contour of coasts and rivers is enthralling to the eye; and to hit, in a map, upon some place you have heard of before, makes history a new possession.