Subject: (urth) Lune, leagues and miles

From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:46:50 +0000

Jerry Friedman quoted and queried
>--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote:
>> Assuming that Lune Diameter = 2160 miles, and Orbit = 150,000 miles . .
>> .
>...
>
>Where did you get 150,000 miles?

". . . the Forests of Lune, fifty thousand leagues away" (III, ch. 32,
para. 4).

"LEAGUE, a unit of distance equal to three miles" (AMERICAN HERITAGE
DICTIONARY).

=mantis=

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