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As the questions I propounded under this head in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 40, have been again alluded to by Mr. E. L. Layard, I may remark that they receive a complete answer in the “Geographical Reader,” by C. B. Clarke, M.A. (Macmillan and Co., 1876). At p. 19 he says: “At the town of Sitka, in Alaska, half the population are Russians who have arrived from Russia across Asia; half the population are Americans who have arrived viâ, the United States. Hence, when it is Sunday with the Russians it is Saturday with the Americans; the Russians are busy on Monday while the Americans are in church on Sunday to the great interruption of business.”
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CLARK, L. Time and Longitude. Nature 19, 220 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019220c0
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