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Here I'm just guessing, but I live about 1/2 mile from Rand-McNally's headquarters, and I like to think

that I've absorbed something from their smokestacks through the years.

Seems to me that a smart mapmaker, who wants his product to resemble reality in some sense,

would want to show grasslands in green, like grass, and a desert in brown ... you know, like sand ?

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