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...following extract is taken from a comment in the Science Monthly on a conversation between two learned European scholars. Professor Struve said that "this conclusion had been drawn independently by so many differently circumstanced men in the Russian and German-Baltic provinces, from the general impressions which their recollections gave them, that there could be little doubt of its containing much truth-truth, too, of a startling character: the first boys at school disappear at the colleges, and those who are first in the colleges disappear in the world. I am not sure that a similar conclusion would not follow...
...Iterly." The Catskill Mountains were credited by one writer to Vermont; by another to Pennsylvania. The Alps to Asia, by a third. Berlin was set down as the capital of Spain; Geneva was transferred to Italy. The Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently...