1851, with Overweg, to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua, to the south of the lake, and from there he pushed on as far as the town of Yola, a little below nine
degrees north latitude.
At this point I think I hear some of my better educated readers exclaim, "How could you in Flatland know anything about angles and
degrees, or minutes?
The mercury was rising very slowly now, though even at 145
degrees it was almost unbearable within the narrow confines of our metal prison.
At nine o'clock, on the morning of June 24, I met President Eliot, the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, and the other guests, at the designated place on the university grounds, for the purpose of being escorted to Sanders Theatre, where the Commencement exercises were to be held and
degrees conferred.
But, inasmuch as it is equally necessary to take into account the deviation which the rotary motion of the earth will impart to the shot, and as the shot cannot reach the moon until after a deviation equal to 16 radii of the earth, which, calculated upon the moon's orbit, are equal to about eleven
degrees, it becomes necessary to add these eleven
degrees to those which express the retardation of the moon just mentioned: that is to say, in round numbers, about sixty-four
degrees.
In the same manner I have now secured myself from the imitation of those who are utterly incapable of any
degree of reflection, and whose learning is not equal to an essay.
For the second, which is dissimulation; it followeth many times upon secrecy, by a necessity; so that he that will be secret, must be a dissembler in some
degree.
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different
degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.
8
degrees 38" and 9
degrees 32" South latitude and 139
degreesThus, as I believe, natural selection will always succeed in the long run in reducing and saving every part of the organisation, as soon as it is rendered superfluous, without by any means causing some other part to be largely developed in a corresponding
degree.
The temperature of the water at the surface showed twelve
degrees, it was now only ten; we had gained two.
Whiteness is predicated of one thing in a greater or less
degree than of another.
