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Rh to the eye we use what we call plans, or maps. But what are plans, or maps?

We all know what pictures are. Here we see the picture of a schoolroom.



It almost seems as if we were in it. There are desks and blackboards, pupils, teacher, teacher's table, pictures, etc., all looking just like the things themselves.

Pictures, then, are drawings that show how things look.

2. Plans, or Maps, are different. They are drawings that show where things are. They tell in what direction things are from one another, and how far apart they are.

Here we have a plan of the schoolroom, the picture of which is shown above.



Let us make a plan of our own schoolroom on the blackboard.

We have now drawn the schoolroom floor. But there is nothing on it. That will never do. So we will make some little marks that shall show just where the desks and chairs are. Then we shall have a plan, or map, of the schoolroom floor and of the things, upon it.

Now what does the plan show? It shows just where everything is, in what direction things are from one another, and how far apart they are.

3. Picture of a Village.—Here is a picture of a village with its streets, its railroad station, its factory, its churches and its homes. Does it not look just like a village? You can see the train coming into the station, and the stream which