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Excerpt from Old Ocean
View. I used to know a boy who, whenever he had gazed for a time at a bit of landscape, would turn his back upon it, bend over, and try how it appeared seen from between his feet. The effect was certainly very novel. Suppose, now, we' take a globe, or a map of the world, and, neglecting the continents, whose out lines are well remembered, study the area occupied by water. I warrant you a new impression of our globe will be forced upon us. Very likely we never before have really appreciated the vastness of this vast, blank, intervening space between the lands. Spread out a map of the whole world, stand back and look at it.
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