The earth and sky; a primer of astronomy for young readers (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, D. Appleton & Company · leaf 35
the Pacific Ocean and aroundCape Horn into the Atlantic again, and finallyback to Sandy Hook once more. They wouldhave to stop for more coal and for fresh pro-visions at quite a number of places, and theycould hardly arrive at Sandy Hook beforethree or four months. In the meantime you and I might… … 8 THE EARTH AXD SKY. it. What a lot of things our little boy wouldhave seen in his long voyage ! What a wiseboy he would have become ! He would cer-tainly know one thing, at any rate. He wouldknow that you could sail quite round theworld, and that it was so large that it tooksomething like four…
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