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MARK TWAIN'S WAR ¡Uf.

Mauk Twain publishes m the Boffilcn Ex- press his first war map Hib oxplinsfcion ia better than tho map Here it is -

"TO THE BEADEE

" The above map explains itself

"The idea of this map is not osrxgmal with me, but ia borrowed from theî>-¿butte, and the other great metropolitan jourusls

" I claim no other merit for this prod_uetion (if I may so call it) than thut it is scdtarate The main blemish of the city paper n»ps, of which it is an imitation, is, that in then moro attention seems poid to artistic pictures-lioness than geographical reliability

" Inasmuch as this is the first lune X. ever tried to draft and engrave a map, or a=ttempt anything in the line of art at all, tbo coancaenda tiona that tho work has received, and Llio ad- miration it lus excited among tho peopl«e, have been very grateful to my feelings An_d it IB touching to reflect that by for tho mO!te=n.thuBi

nstic of tho praises have come from people who know nothing at all about art

" By an unimportant oversight I haveerngravod the map so that it reads wrong omi first,. «except to left handed people I forgot (hot im order ?o make it right m print it should bes drawn and engraved upsido down Hosrow, let the studont who desireB to contémplete f*fa<e map stand on his bead, or hold it beforo a Hooking gloBB. That will bring it right .

" The reader will comprehend ot a- glanco that that piece of river with tho ' High ~35i ldgo ' over it got loft out to ono aido by renB«o>ii of a slip of a graving tool, which tendered i_t noces

eary to ohaugo the entiro courso of lose river Rhino or else spoil the map After liaving spent two days m digging und gouging at the map, I would have changed tho couria» of the Atlantio Ocoan beforo I would bato lost bo

much work

' I rovor had so much trouble with ostny thing in my life as I had with this map I iiscä heaps of little fortifications scattered all rouBnxi Pana at first, but every now and then myimfcxuments would slip, and fetch away whole jamies of batteries, and leave the vicinity a) cUesii as if

tho Prussians had been there

" The reader will find it well lo frsaiuo thiB map for future reference so that it mo»y aid in extending popular intelligence and d ipeZÖang tho wide sproad ignorance of the day

" IfABk Tver-AiN " OPPIOIAI COSIHEMUTIONS

" It is the only map of the kind I erear saw -

V S GiiAJfr"

"It places the situation m an onto ely new light -Biskabok "

" I cannot look upon it without slnedchng ]

tears -Bhioham Youno "

" It is vory nice, large print -JSifOEisov "

" My wife wob for yearB afflicted »iib. &eckleB

and although everything was done foi baer relief | that could be done, all was m rum 5£ut,' Sir, since her first glance at your rasp tHtey havo entirely loft hor She has nothing bist convul

Bions now -J Smith "

" If I had had this map, I could hirae got out I of Metz without any troublo -liiZilKm."

" I havo soon a great many mapsiu =nay time,

but nono that this one reminds sne of- I

Tbochu "

" It is but fair to say that in some r-e-spocts it is a truly remarkable map-VV Î Sucebstan

' I said to my son Frederick Willum«, * If you could only make a map like that I would be perfectly willing to see you d10-oven anxious '

-William III "

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