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The Unspoken Bits in Antique Historical Charts: Africa, 1826

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John L. Blake’s Geographical Atlas is interesting for what it says and doesn’t say–granted, you can’t much take someone to task for things that they do not say, unless of course the unspoken bit makes a louder noise in its absence than in its presence. 

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