80 THE EARTH’S NORTH POLE.

 

almost, and wherever he was, that nee-
dle would know in which direction the
north pole was, and always turn toward
it, as if it wanted to go there, when it
comes near the pole, it turns toward it
no longer. And here I ought to tell
you—what, perhaps, you never heard
before—that the magnetic pole of the
earth and the north pole (so called in
geography) are not one and the same.
The point to which the needle turns is
not the north pole exactly, though
many people suppose it to be. It isa
point some degrees from the north pole.

More than twenty years ago, there