ABSTRACT
FEW persons, probably, who walk in Greenwich Park, realize to themselves, as they pass Flamsteed House,
that they have stepped from one hemisphere of the globe into another. Yet the meridian of zero is of great geographical importance; and the line which bi-,sects the earth longitudinally gives us the definite idea of an eastern and a western world. Great Britain is contained in the western hemisphere; for the convenience of which statement, we overlook the kingdom of Kent, the Eastern Counties, etc., which lie eastward of this imaginary line. And since the western world is OU?' world, the Hawaiian Islands claim to have a geographical kindred with us, for they, too, are situated in the western hemisphere.
