WCP3506

[1]¹

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Oct^r. 4^th. 1908

Messrs Macmillan & Co.²

Dear Sirs

I now return the maps — 2 for press, and 2 for some further alterations.

You will see that the new Pacimoni map keeps up the character for Blundering! that has prevailed throughout!

Besides spelling Cassiquiari in a totally new ^{(and wrong)} way — they have also invented a new way [2] of spelling "Pueblito" (a small village) — have made a hill shaded as such by Spruce,³ and called "Cerrito" — (a small mountain) into a village!

In almost all the other names they have changed the als "U"ó — carefully written by Spruce where they first occur, into "N"s — so as to completely alter the names. I have compared them all with the original map, and find that a little careful observation [3] would have prevented this error in every case.

That these blunders sh^d. ever get on a map and be engraved, is bad enough; but that they should always be passed over to me to find out, and correct, is simply disgraceful.

The new map of the Andes only wants Spruce’s routes in red, as I have marked them, and the Title, and Explanatory note, which is necessary for as our credit, as the discrepancies are too glaring.

The mountain shading is to [4] me very unsatisfactory, but it seems hopeless to get it better. The great volcanoes are far better shown, and more characteristic, in the old "Red Bark" map — made by Stanfords father⁴ 47 years ago, as you will see by comparing them.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]