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Following the Equator
Part 2

CHAPTER IX
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Anybody who has an old fact in stock that is no longer negotiable in the domestic market will let him have it at his own price.

An accumulation of such goods is easily and quickly made.

They cost almost nothing and they bring par in the foreign market.

Travelers who come to America always freight up with the same old nursery tales that their predecessors selected, and they carry them back and always work them off without any trouble in the home market.
If the climates of the world were determined by parallels of latitude, then we could know a place's climate by its position on the map; and so we should know that the climate of Sydney was the counterpart of the climate of Columbia, S.C., and of Little Rock, Arkansas, since Sydney is about the same distance south of the equator that those other towns are north of-it-thirty-four degrees.

But no, climate disregards the parallels of latitude.


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