Flags, ensigns and Highland clans give these maps by W. & A. K. Johnston, the Edinburgh and London publishers, a strongly heraldic character. Late nineteenth-century atlas plates display the national flags, ensigns and royal and imperial standards of the world as they stood when the atlases appeared. A large mid-twentieth-century map of the Scottish Highlands surrounds the clan territories with tartans, arms and dress, and an early twentieth-century tourist map of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, takes the firm far from Scotland.