The Teacher's Manual of Geography: I. Hints to Teachers. Ii. Modern Facts And Ancient Fancies
The Teacher's Manual of Geography: I. Hints to Teachers. Ii. Modern Facts And Ancient Fancies
Redway Jacques Wardlaw
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A few whirls are sufficient to make the ball of clay bulge midway between the poles. Proofs of the Earth's Shape. — The circumnavigation of the globe by mariners is too well known to need any description in these pages. It is not a bad idea, however, to follow the voyage of Magellan*s ship or that of Francis Drake on a globe ^ showing the irregular routes taken by these sailors. A route frequently taken by tourists nowadays is as follows: New York to Liverpool by steamer; railway to London and ...Dover, England; steamer to Calais, France ; railway via Paris, Geneva, Milan, and Rome to Brindisi, Italy ; steamer via Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal (touch- ing at Alexandria and Cairo) to Bombay ; railway across India to Calcutta ; steamer to Hong Kong and Canton, China, and thence to Yokohama, Japan ; steamer to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, and thence to San Francisco, Cal. ; railway to New York. The min- imum time in which this trip can be made is sixty-seven days. The proof that vessels gradually sink out of sight is easier to demonstrate in theory than in practice.
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