A CURIOUS CALCULATION.
It is asserted by scientific writers, says ■an Irish newspaper, that the number of persons who hare existed on our globe since the beginning of time, amounts'lo :66,627,843,237,075,256. These figures, :when divided by 3,095,000—the number of squareV leagues on the globe—leaves 1i;320;689,732.; square, miles of land, which, b'eiiig divided as before, gives 1,414^626,075 persons to each square mile. If we.reduce these miles to square roods, the-number will be 1,853,774,600,000, which, divided in a like manner, ■will V give 1373 inhabitants ..to; • eich■■ ■■: square rood, and; these being reduced to feet, will give about five persons to each square foot of terra firrca. '-It will thus be: perceived that our eavthisarast cemetery. On each rood "of jt-1383 human beings lie buried, each •rood being scarcely sufficient for ten 'graves, with each grave, containing 128 persons. The whole sujpfac of the globe, Iherefpre, has been dug over 128 times to bury.its dead.' ;.....;;,..,- . .
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2638, 22 June 1877, Page 3
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153A CURIOUS CALCULATION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2638, 22 June 1877, Page 3
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