This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...its circumference or girth is twenty-five thousand miles. 3. Nearly three-fourths of its surface is covered with water, forming seas and oceans. The remainder is very irregular, presenting hills and ranges of mountains, with valleys, slopes and plains. The land is covered with a great variety of herbs and trees, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...its circumference or girth is twenty-five thousand miles. 3. Nearly three-fourths of its surface is covered with water, forming seas and oceans. The remainder is very irregular, presenting hills and ranges of mountains, with valleys, slopes and plains. The land is covered with a great variety of herbs and trees, and inhabited by many kinds of animals. Races of men, either in a civilized or savage condition, occupy much of the surface. 4. Although the earth may seem very large, it is, after all, only the third of a set or system of globes, called planets, which move at different distances in space round the sun, and all of which are supposed to be occupied by living beings and the things necessary for their sustenance. 5. The moon is a small globe which moves in like manner round the earth, and some of the other planets have moons or satellites moving round them. The sun, which gives light and heat to the planets, is a body of vast size--one million four hundred thousand times larger than the earth. 6. The earth is distant from the sun ninety-five millions of miles, and the last, or most distant of the planets as yet discovered, is not nearer than three thousand six hundred millions of miles. If there were a road from the earth to the sun, and a man were to ride along that road at the rate of a mile in the minute, which was the speed of the swiftest horse ever known, he would require a hundred and eighty years, or two long lifetimes, to perform the journey. 7. Great as is the space occupied by the sun and planets, it is but a small portion of the universe. Every little star which is seen twinkling in the sky is a sun like ours, supposed to he surrounded, too, with a similar system of planets, which, like our earth, are the residences of animated creatures. T...
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