THE MOST CURIOUS CRAFT AFLOAT 



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BREAD OVEN : GUATEMALA 



mountaineer's HOME: GUxVTEMALA 



State of Washington 24 degrees east of 

 north ; in western Ohio and South Caro- 

 hna it points either exactly north or 

 nearly so. Taking a trans- Atlantic liner 

 at X'ew York bound for England, the 

 ■compass contitmally varies its direction 

 along the entire route traveled, starting 

 out with about 10 degrees west at New' 



York and increasing in the mid- Atlantic 

 to about 30 degrees west, and then drop- 

 ping to about 17 degrees west at South- 

 ampton. 



Suppose the earth w^ere an iron ball 

 and it were magnetized symmetrically 

 about the rotation axis, then the mag- 

 netic poles would be precisely where 



