Elementary map and aerial photograph reading Page: 46
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Figure 66.
remember which number is given first. The rule is
"READ RIGHT UP." For example, if your platoon
leader tells you to meet a patrol on the path at (47-33)
on our map (fig. 65), first you read right along the num-
bers at the bottom until you come to 47. Then you read
up this line until you come to the line marked 33. Read
right up.
If the object we are trying to give the address of is not
right at the place where a line crosses another line, we
may imagine the sides of the grid square divided into 10
equal parts, so that 100 imaginary smaller squares are
formed, as in figure 66. The lines on this grid are num-
bered to the right from 1 to 9, and up from 1 to 9. You
read the numbers of the small squares just as you do the
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