The length of a solar year is 3G5.2-I:
days. Singularly enough, the length
of a degree of longitude at the equator
as taken from tue printed geodetical
tables or tne uritlsii ordnance survey
is 3U5.234 feet ; so that, if the length of
a degree at the equator be divided by
the number of days In the year, It will
give one thousand feet, or, more ex
actly, SW9.977, which would give the
foot within one thousandth part of an
inch, a quantity which cannot be seen
or distinguished by the ordinary means,
Again, the length of a degree of lati
tude at the central point of the British
Islands, is singularly enough found
to be 305.242 feet, and the length of a
degree of latitude, measured on that
parallel, divided by the number of days
n the year, gives exactly one thousand
leet.
There is, of course, no possible con.
nection between the number of days in
a year and the number of feet in a de
gree of latitude or longitude. Never
theless, after a lapse of a few thousand
years, the scientific traveler from New
Zealand may nay the British the same
compliment, 111 turn, which some Kug
hsh sctPiiUuc travelers have paid the
Egyptians, and attribute to scientific
refinement that which is simply a curl
otts accidental agreement in numbers.
nyriaa KalatatlaBS.
