Lune, leagues and miles

Michael Andre-Driussi · 12 Mar 2002, 00:46 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (urth) Lune, leagues and miles
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:46:50 -0800
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Jerry Friedman quoted and queried
>--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote:
>> Assuming that Lune Diameter =3D 2160 miles, and Orbit =3D 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).

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