The American preoccupation with one part of the Middle East finds cartographic expression in the inset map. An example is this hand-colored "Map of Persia, Turkey In Asia. Afghanistan, Beloochistan," from Mitchell's New General Atlas, dated 1860 and published in Philadelphia. The cartographer feels a need to offer an inset map showing "Palestine and the Holy Land," on the same scale as the main map. The inset map flags this geographic area as being of exceptional interest, probably on account of its Biblical associations.
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