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——PERSONAL KITS 171aolssance maps and full of minor inaccuracies; butthey are revised from time to time. A good partof the continental United States has already beensurveyed.Maps may be cut in sections and mounted onmuslin in such way that they fold conveniently forthe pocket, but there should be a cover to protectthem from soiling and wet.A better w^ay is to use what the French call aliseur de cartes. There are many models and sizes,but all are alike in principle. The simplest form isa leather pocket to contain map sections, faced withFig. 106.Fig. 107.Map Case U. S. A. Dispatch Casetransparent celluloid, ruled in squares, for the particularsection in use at the time. Then there is noneed of mounting the map on cloth (such a backingis likely to loosen in the humid air of the forest,and the edges will fray), nor is there risk of themap being soiled, torn, injured by rain, or blownaway.If one has much mapping, sketching, or writingto do, he may well carry a military dispatch case,of which one pattern is shown in Fig. 106, made ofolive drab web. with celluloid windows divided into