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Excerpt from The Book of the Ocean
America from about Porto Alegre to Lima on one side, and through southern Siam and the northernmost of the Philippine Islands on the other, and you make hemispheres, the northern Of which (with London at its center) contains almost all the land Of the globe, while the southern (with New Zealand as its central point) is almost entirely water, Australia, and the narrow southern half of South America being the only lands Of consequence in its whole area. Observing the map in this way, noticing that, besides nearly a complete half-world Of water south Of your rubber equator, much Of the northern hemisphere also is a?oat, you are willing to believe the assertion that there is almost three times as much of the outside Of the earth hidden under the waves as appears above them. The estimate in round numbers is one hundred and fifty million square (statute) miles of ocean surface, as compared with about fifty million square miles Of land on the globe.
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