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WE have it on the authority of Prof. Gannett that, at W the present rate of progress, the series of topographical maps of the United States, which was commenced in 1882, will require no less than fifty years for completion, and that the cost of this great undertaking will not fall far short of twenty million dollars. The map is primarily intended to meet the needs of the geologists of the Survey; but it has been thought economical to make such arrangements that the resulting map may be adequate to serve all purposes for which general topographic maps are used. Its scope is limited to the representation of the larger natural features, and the artificial features which are of general or public interest, to the exclusion of those which are purely of a private character, and therefore liable to rapid changes.
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FOWLER, A. American Topography. Nature 51, 274–276 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051274f0
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