Tavistock Terrace, Holloway.
_What Day is it at our Antipodes?_ (Vol. viii., pp 102. 649.).--After the
able way in which this subject has been treated by A. E. B., I will only
add an extract from _A Complete System of Geography_, by Emanuel Bowen,
London, 1747, vol. iii. p. 250.:
"One thing more is worth observing concerning this place (Macao),
namely, that the Portuguese Sunday here is the Saturday with the
Spaniards of the Philippine Islands, and so forward through all the
days of the week, although there be scarce any difference in the
longitude of both places. But the reason is, the Portuguese, in coming
to Europe, pass eastward, whereas the Spaniards, coming from America,
pass westward; so that between both, they have sailed round the globe:
in doing which there is necessarily one day lost, as we have taken
occasion to show in the introduction to this work."