A RELIEF MAP OF GUATEMALA.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SFECTemOR."] SIR,—You published some months ago a correspondence upon the possibility of constructing a large-scale relief map of England. The enclosed cutting shows that in Guatemala such a map has already been constructed. The quotation is from a pamphlet issued by The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, under the title, " Guatemala: its Riches, its Development, and its Progress," resulting from the Administration of President Licenciado Manuel Estrada Cabrera. I understand that the
map described is in the open air.—I am, Sir, &c., Q.
"There has been arranged at the orders of President Estrada Cabrera a map which to the tourist in Guatemala unfolds at a glance a panorama of the republic. The most notable of its kind in the world, the map covers 2,500 square yards and is built near the Palace of Minerva. It shows in every minute detail the rivers, the mountains, the plains, and the hills of Guatemala. Every railroad line, every wagon road, every bridge, is reproduced in colours with mathematical correctness and absolute exactness of location. Every town, city, and hamlet is shown, with their streets and buildings in miniature. To the student of Guatemala, to the curiosity hunter, and to the business man, the prospector and traveller, President Estrada Cabrera's map of Guatemala is fruit- ful of a most thorough understanding of the republic, and the thousands of people who have seen it have declared that it is a mathematical wonder, and that its usefulness has more than com- pensated for the time and money expended in its making."
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