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Caption: Figure 7.
Traces of the Sagittarius, Scutum, and Norma arms in the first Galactic quadrant, as well as the smaller Aquila spur (Cohen et al. 1980; Dame et al. 1986) and Aquila Rift features, on the CfA CO survey integrated from ﹩b=-1^\circ \quad {\rm{to}}\quad +1^\circ ﹩. The near and far sides of the arms are dotted and solid lines, respectively. The far side of Scutum probably does not extend below ﹩l\sim 20^\circ ﹩. The near side of the Sagittarius arm passes so close to the Sun that its tracing clouds are widely separated in longitude.
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