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A CURIOUS CALCULATION

It is asserted by scientific writers, says an Irish nowpaper that the nurnbor of persons who have existed on our globe since the beginning ot the time amounts to 66,G27,843,237,075,256. These figures when devided by, 3,095,000 — the number of sqauase leagues on the globfr — leaves 11.320,089,732 square miles of land, which, being devided as before, gives 1,414,G26,070 persons to each square mile, If we reduce these miles to square roods, the number will be 1,853,774,000,000, which, divide m a like manner, will give 1373 inhabitants to each square rood, and these being reduced to feet, will give about five persons to each square foot of tera firrua. It will thus be perceived that our earth is a vast cemetery. On each rood of it 1237 human beings lie buried, each rood being scarcely sufficient for ten graves with each grave containing 128 persons. The whole surface 'of the globe, therefore, has been dug over 128 times to bury its dead. - [How about the unburied dead, and those eaten a la New Zealander or salted down a la Rambuster for future use ?]

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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 786, 30 June 1877, Page 3

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A CURIOUS CALCULATION Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 786, 30 June 1877, Page 3

A CURIOUS CALCULATION Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 786, 30 June 1877, Page 3

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