Circumference in example sentence
"Without reckoning, too, that if a vertical depth of sixteen leagues can be attained only by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must go eight thousand miles in a south-easterly direction; so that we shall emerge from some point in the earth's circumference instead of getting to the centre!""Confusion to all your figures, and all your hypotheses besides," shouted my uncle in a sudden rage.