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Wallace observed the same method of striking a light in Ternate. Centigrade is changed to Fahrenheit by multiplying by nine-fifths and adding thirty-two. The inhabitants of the Philippines call this petate, and from the Mexican petla-calli, a mat "house," derive petaca, a cigar case. Four lines, re an omitted sketch, left out. Voyage en Chine, vol. II., page 33.
At Grand Central Station he was literally burning up under a blazing heat of 142 degrees. At Ninety-sixth Street he was down to 74. As I walked home from the station I was forced to admit that I was not sure whether one should multiply by five-ninths or nine-fifths. I would not be misunderstood. I am no enemy of the public institutions I have criticised.
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