Passage 9

In English

There is a small example for this. We ask ourselves the question, is the land which we now call the same as the one which existed in the as the land ruled by at the time of ? No, this is not so. At that time, was hundreds of miles away from the tip of India and at that time, it was at the equator. As time went on, and as we moved from the to the , this particular island, which was on the equator, drifted hundreds of miles northwards. When we look at this island, which we now call , we find that it has shifted to the north of the equator.