scritfin

Updated: May 18, 2025

Then Paul has to tell us how in the Scritfin country there is little or no night in midsummer, little or no day in winter; and how the shadows there are exceeding long, and shorten to nothing as they reach the equator, where he puts not merely Egypt, but Jerusalem. Because, he says, shrewdly enough, the further you go from the sun, the nearer the sun seems to the horizon.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge