3O THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE. 
own state looks only like a tiny speck upon it, and an 
express train would take nearly a month to travel 
round it. Yet even our whole globe is nothing in size 
compared to the sun, for it only measures 8000 miles 
across, while the sun measures more than 852,000. 
FIG. 4. 109 earths laid across the face of the sun. Each one of 
these dots represents roughly the size of the earth as com- 
pared to the size of the sun represented by the large circle. 
Imagine for a moment that you could cut the sun 
and the earth each in half as you would cut an apple ; 
then if you were to lay the flat side of the half-earth on 
