. Harper's weekly. r astronomers have amused thenv elves withcalculating the effect of this decreased force of grav-ity, and find that a man might jump 30 feet high,an-! n ilian he does from aa or-dinary jump on the earth. The distance of the moonfrom us, 240,000 miles, may seem to bo very great, may inquire whether I An ion of the fae-imile ofthe lunar ( 1>4 and 1ftb) -hows the well-knr lore things too are visible. The surface i<diw sidering what uould happ-n il an i,,M ,.,1 ,taken up to a considerable height above a moam on the
. Harper's weekly. r astronomers have amused thenv elves withcalculating the effect of this decreased force of grav-ity, and find that a man might jump 30 feet high,an-! n ilian he does from aa or-dinary jump on the earth. The distance of the moonfrom us, 240,000 miles, may seem to bo very great, may inquire whether I An ion of the fae-imile ofthe lunar ( 1>4 and 1ftb) -hows the well-knr lore things too are visible. The surface i<diw sidering what uould happ-n il an i,,M ,.,1 ,taken up to a considerable height above a moam on the earth. If the sun were shining per, < rh down on it, |,« would not he able to t-ii-1 Hi-mountain iromthe,ground around;I Hie sunlight !-M,wavSM,u-to, So it is in them. ght fallg straight down,i indistinguishable from from shadows, there are variations belonging to thoditicrent reflecting power of the rocks- of which theplaces called i di-tance. would be darker than tpredominated. Coming now.
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