The year of Mars is equal to 687 of our days. His day is 24 hours and 37 minutes. His diameter is about 4,500 miles; his distance from the sun 145,000,000 of miles; his nearest position to the Earth 35,000,000 miles. The moon Phobos is 8 to 9 miles in diameter. It is 3,760 miles from the surface of Mars, and revolves around him in 7 hours and 39 minutes, at a rate of 79.6 per minute. It rises in the west and sets in the east. Its orbit is 36,486 miles. Deimos rises in the east and sets in the west, so to Mars, does the Earth, Sun and Moon. The diameter of Deimos 6 to 7 miles, distance from the surface of Mars 12,500 miles and his revolution is performed in 30 hours and 18 minutes, rate 50 miles a minute. FOOTNOTES [1] After reaching home and looking over the notes of the survey, I found the number of the stake to be between 1175 and 1185, and it was set on Saturday afternoon, October 25, 1879. [2] Plastidule is the lowest, or unit molecule of protoplasm. [3] The Professor probably referred to the instruction found in Matt. 19: 12. [4] A Kik is worth about 10 cents American money. [5] I have gone over these figures and I find the King was correct. Author. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concern, by James B. (James Bradun) Alexander