Stuff Yer Satellite Navigation
Look at this perfectly exquisite pocket globe, which I found on a site called Jalopy Junktown (click on the heading to go there) Cary's Pocket Globe agreeable to the latest Discoveries London pubd. by J & W Cary Strand Apr.1.1792, printed in cartouche, the twelve hand-coloured gores applied to papier mache sphere, mounted by two pins at the poles in fish skin spherical case with hemispheres applied with coloured gores, one titles "A Table of Latitudes & Longitudes of places not given on the Globe", the other titled "The World as known in Caesar's Time agreeable to D'Anville", 3.5in (9cm) diam.
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