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Show Little Drops of Water. It has beeu stated that people are as Ignorant of the size of the sea as they are of matters dealing with astronomy. Few are aware, for instance, that the Pacific ocean covers GS.OOO.OOO miles; the Atlantic 30.000,000 miles, and the Indian ocean. Arctic, and Autarkic 42.000,000. To stow away the contents of the Pacific It would be necessary to fill a tank one mile long, one mile wide, and one mile deep, every day for 440 years. Put in figures, the Pacific holds in weight 'JS-t.t'tKi.OOO 000 0U0 LMJv.OOtl tons. The Atlantic averages n depth of not quite three miles. lis waters weigh S2a.OOOJDOOjQOO.OOI),4XX).OOU tons, and u tank to eniiin'ii II would have each of its sides miles loin:. |