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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 411, 31 March 1904, Page 3

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If a person were confined to one text* book, the best one to choose would be ;i dictionary, since it gives an inkling of every art, science or profession known to mr nkind.. A study of the dictionary U : ■;■ y. interesting - and instructive, ami a iljnple turning of its • pages will acquaint us with many things of which we have never previously heard. Notice what a fund of information is contained in the following definitions: Amphiscians are the people who inhabit the tropics, whose shadows in* one part of the year are cast to thenorth and in the other to the south, according as the tun it-north or south, of their zenith. ft ~-% The Antiscians are the innfr-hiinnts-of the earth living on different. s.ice»<>f the equator, whose shadows at noon \ are cast in contrary directions. There living north of the equator are artis-cians-to thosa living south of that line, and vice versa. The shadows on one side are cast down toward the north and upon tbeother toward the south. The ABcians are the people who live in a land wh»re, at a certain time of each year, they have no shadows at noon. All the inhabitants of the torrid zone are Ascians, they having a vertical sun twice a year.

The Perisciana are the inhabitant! o£ the polar circle, whose shadows-, during some portion of the summer, must in the ©ourse of the day move entirely around and fall toward every point of the compass.