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Miscellaneous geological maps, charts, and information. Maps include the Quito Plateau, the Himalayas, and the crater on Java. The heights of the Himalayan mountains are shown. This map is from the Berghaus Physical Atlas of the World which is considered the first comprehensive physical atlas. Robinson: "Berghaus' Physikalischer Atlas was a monumental achievement, bringing together an enormous amount of information about the physical geography of the earth and encompassing many more subjects than had been treated in the numerous smaller atlases that had been produced since the 1820's."