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A Comparison Of Sea And Land.

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Day
27
Month
May
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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The triviality of the sea compared ■wlth the land is the theme of a recent arücle by Mr. John Holt Sohooling. A bucket 748 miles deep and 743 miles trom side to side would hold every drop of the ocean. This bucket could rest quite firmly on the British isles. To flll the bucket one would need to work 10,000 steam pumps, each sucktats up 1,000 tons of sea per second, for 422 years. So if anyone wants to be tU of the sea, the way is plain. But to jet rid of the earth would be 4,555 times more diffleult, requiring 2,000 great guns, each firing 1,000 projectiles second. each projectlle consisting of 100,000 tons of earth. At the end of 1,000 years this mundane sphere would all shot away.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News