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FACT versus FICTION.—1st, The Sun's Distance; 2d, The Stability of the Earth.—Fact 1st. I have for years observed, at noon, when 50 degrees north of the sun's perpendicular, the shadow of any perpendicular substance is as long on a plane base as the substance is high. This fact clearly proves the distance of the sun is not as many thousand miles as modern tuition says 'tis millions. I hereby challenge the modern scientific to show how it is possible for such amount of shadow to appear, if the sun's distance was more than six times the earth's diameter, the earth being a globe. Fact 2. It is a well-known fact, when an eclipse of the sun occurs the dark body of the moon appears to the eye of an observer to pass over the sun's disc from west to east. This fact proves that the earth does not turn daily before the sun. I challenge the aforenamed to show the possibility of the earth's turning once in 24 hours. The moon travelling round the earth only once In 29 days, the sun stationary, and the eclipse not to appear to an observer to pass from east to west before the sun.—J. WELSFORD, 18, High-street, Plymouth, Devonshire.