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Lear's island with a single tall tree

Author: Edward Lear Year: 1871 Length: 335 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

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After a time, they saw some land at a distance; and, when they came to it, they found it was an island made of water quite surrounded by earth. Besides that, it was bordered by evanescent isthmuses, with a great gulf-stream running about all over it; so that it was perfectly beautiful, and contained only a single tree, 503 feet high.

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The island in this passage is made of water surrounded by earth and holds a single tree five hundred and three feet high. Lear liked exact figures in impossible places, and the tale parodies the travel writing of his day. It first appeared in 1871, when Lear was living in Italy. The full text sits in Nonsense Books at Project Gutenberg, which gathers several of his volumes in one file.

About this text

The island in this passage is made of water surrounded by earth and holds a single tree five hundred and three feet high. Lear liked exact figures in impossible places, and the tale parodies the travel writing of his day. It first appeared in 1871, when Lear was living in Italy. The full text sits in Nonsense Books at Project Gutenberg, which gathers several of his volumes in one file.

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A precise number lands at the end of a nonsense sentence, so the digit row comes after a long stretch of letters.

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