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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "We know that the crust of the globe is 500 miles in thickness;
then the inside diameter of Pellucidar must be 7,000 miles,
and the superficial area 165,480,000 square miles.
Three-fourths of this is land. Think of it! A land area
of 124,110,000 square miles! Our own world contains
but 53,000,000 square miles of land, the balance of its
surface being covered by water. Just as we often compare
nations by their relative land areas, so if we compare
these two worlds in the same way we have the strange
anomaly of a larger world within a smaller one!
"Where within vast Pellucidar would you search for your
At the Earth's Core |
