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The so-called Bellman’s Map from Lewis Carroll’s 1876 book-length poem The Hunting of the Snark. As Carroll describes it in the work’s second canto: “He had brought a large map representing the sea, / Without the least vestige of land: / And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be / A map they could all understand.”

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