Sark, Samuel M. [from old catalog] · Circleville, Ohio, The author · leaf 73
ys fall perpendicular uponthe Tropic of Cancer. The north-ern hemisphere is now turned to-ward the Sun and we have sum-mer north of the equator and win-ter south of it. On the 2 2d. of March and againon the 22d. of September, theSuns rays fall perpendicular upon Fig. 10. the equator ; at the former… … ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY. 69 ed at the beginning of this paragraph, all play an importantpart in producing the change of seasons, for if either the in-clination, parallelism of its axis, or the revolution of theEarth was wanting, different portions of the earth would not beconstantly turning towards…
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