| Show tiie THE MAGNITUDE OF the eaken eartra the th circumference of the globe is is twenty five thousand and twenty miles it is not so easy to comprehend pre liend so stupendous a circle as to put down its extent in fiu figures it become becomes S more mor palpable perhaps by co comparison parison su such c h as this A railway train traveling incessantly night and day at at the rate of twenty give five miles an hour hoir would require six six bix weeks to go around it the cubical balk of the earth is two hundred and sixty phoui and millions of cubic miles dr lardner says if the materials which form torm the globe era i ere eia built up in the form of a column having a pedestal of the magnitude of england and W wales ses the thi heighton height of the column would be nearly four and a half halt millions of millions of miles milel A tun tunnel nel nei through the earth from england to new zealand kealand woud be nearly eight tight thousand miles long lung r ex |
