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Excerpt from A Plea for Research in Asia Minor and Syria: Authorized by Men Whose High Achievements and Representative Character Make the Project a Call of Humanity at Large for Light in Regard to the Life of Man in the Cradle of Western Civilization
The extant maps of Asia Minor in general are based on dead reckoning by the time consumed in the march of a horse. The convention upon which geographers have had to work is that in one hour an average' horse will pass over three miles and one half. But this convention is wholly unsatisfactory 5 Ramsay has found that the driving time will vary between six and twelve minutes per kilometer, for the horse will travel rapidly or slowly, as the road is good or poor, or as it traverses level or hilly ground. There is no trustworthy map of Asia minor, for all alike are crude and inaccurate. There is not a single city on the plateau of Asia Minor, apart from the few railway surveys, whose situation is certain within several miles. Owing to this fact route surveys, however good, however much they may ap_5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
