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And forty-six minutes. If it is noon in Baghdad, it will be noon in Paris after two hours and forty-eight minutes. If it is noon in Aleppo, it will not be noon in Paris until after two and a third hours. If it is noon in Algiers, it will not be noon in Paris until after approximately four minutes. If it is noon in Tunis, it will be noon in Paris after half an hour and two minutes. And when it is noon in Isfahan, it will be noon in Paris after three hours and twenty-two minutes. If it is noon in the city of Beijing, the seat of the King of China, it will be noon in Paris seven hours and forty-one minutes. In the city of Bab and Abwab, it will be one hour and forty-eight minutes. In the great city of Rome, it will be half an hour and eight minutes. These lands are to the east of the city of Paris. As for the lands to its west, if it is noon in the city of Madrid, the seat of the King of Andalusia, it will have passed noon in Paris by four minutes. If it is noon in the city of Lisbon, the seat of Portugal, it will have passed noon in Paris by five and a half minutes. If it is noon in the city of Philadelphia, the city of America, it will have been five hours and thirteen minutes past noon in Paris. If it is noon in the city of Rio de Janeiro, it will be approximately three hours. If it is noon in the island of Kanwa, the seat of the Sultanate of Brazil in Central America, it will be midnight in Paris. He said they are antipodal. The distance between Paris and Alexandria is seven hundred and sixty-five parasangs. Between it and Cairo, three hundred and nine parasangs. Between it and Mecca Al-Musharrafah, seven hundred and forty parasangs. Between it and Istanbul, five hundred and sixty parasangs. Between it and Aleppo, eight hundred and six.

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