120. A WONDERFUL VILLAGE.
There is a certain village in Japan, situated in a very low valley, and yet the sun is nearer to the inhabitants every noon, by 3,000 miles and upwards, than when he either rises or sets to these people. In what part of the country is the village situated?
120. A WONDERFUL VILLAGE.
When the sun is in the horizon of any place (whether in Japan or elsewhere), he is the length of half the earth’s diameter more distant from that place than in his meridian at noon. As the earth’s semi diameter is nearly 4,000 miles, the sun must be considerably more than 3,000 miles nearer at noon than at his rising, there being no valley even the hundredth part of 1,000 miles deep