Note 354 — Chapter I
Reading edition
Legrand d’Aussy, Image du Monde. Notices et extraits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, etc., v. (1798), p. 260. It is also said that the earth is round, so that a man could go all round it as an insect can walk all round the circumference of a pear. This notable poem has been lately studied by Fant, but is still unprinted. It was known to Abulfeda, that if two persons made the journey described, they would on meeting differ by two days in their calendar (Peschel, Gesch. d. Erdkunde, p. 132).