Lune, leagues and miles
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Mar 2002
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Michael Andre-Driussi — 12 Mar 2002, 00:46

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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