WCP3503

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

August 27th. 1908

Messrs Macmillan & Co¹

Dear Sirs

I return the small Map with corrections which are important. I have also corrected the main roads by Spruce's² statements. These roads are distinctly given in Stieler's³ Hand Atlas of 1882 — and I cannot believe they would erase them from the plate.

Their Map of Columbia & Ecuador shows the Mountains very well (on so small a scale) bringout out[sic] the great Volcanic cones, in their great extent [2] and distinctness from the minor hills & ridges about them. It shows their arrangement prominently in a double row — with the great plateau between them — not a mere jumble of hills & ridges as on Stanford's⁴ map, giving the idea of a country more like our South Western Counties than of the very grandest district of lofty mountains in the world.

To avoid confusing this Map further, [3] I will put Spruce's routes on the "Bark-Region Map," & will send back that, & the other Maps shortly.

I have been exceedingly busy.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]