Excerpt from The Journal of Race Development, 1912, Vol. 2 The Togo map and the other German maps of large parts Of German East and Southwest Africa and the Cameroons are among the very best products Of the kind that have ever been made in new lands. They give an incomparably more accurate idea Of the regions they represent than we could possibly derive from any map of the western part of the Bal kan Peninsula, published twenty. Years ago. The Official German Colonial Atlas, printed in 1897, is so completely out of date, that new sheets are being issued embracing the large amount Of cartographic material now available. The French map product also maintains a high standard. The sheets, in colors, of the colonies, on which the Colonial Office has generalized the enormous amount of survey mate rial collected, are among the best maps of recently explored parts Of the world. Both the British and French govern ments are also issuing map sheets on a scale of containing the results Of the latest information on the areas covered. Comparatively little new map work has been done in the Portuguese and Spanish territories; and it must suffice here merely to refer to the very serviceable cartographic output of the Belgian Congo and other colonies. The present status of map work has made possible, within the past few years, the production of good economic maps showing climatic and topographic variations, the distribution of great forests, swamps, dry areas, plains, highlands, miner als and other export products, the extent of navigation etc. All these maps are preliminary and imperfect but they repre sent the great progress in our knowledge Of Africa; and about 100 new map sheets are issued every year to supplement and improve them. Though Africa is the last of the continents to be opened to enterprise, this great event has occurred in an era that in many ways, and not least in the production Of good maps, is facilitating more rapid development than was possible in any other of the continents. 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.