SECTION 2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland

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Flatland
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SECTION 2 Of the Climate and Houses in
Flatland
As with you, so also with us, there are four points of the compass
North, South, East, and West.
There being no sun nor other heavenly bodies, it is impossible for us to
determine the North in the usual way; but we have a method of our own.
By a Law of Nature with us, there is a constant attraction to the South; and,
although in temperate climates this is very slight– so that even a Woman
in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much
difficulty– yet the hampering effort of the southward attraction is quite
sufficient to serve as a compass in most parts of our earth. Moreover, the
rain (which falls at stated intervals) coming always from the North, is an
additional assistance; and in the towns we have the guidance of the houses,
which of course have their side-walls running for the most part North and
South, so that the roofs may keep off the rain from the North. In the
country, where there are no houses, the trunks of the trees serve as some
sort of guide. Altogether, we have not so much difficulty as might be
expected in determining our bearings.
Yet in our more temperate regions, in which the southward attraction is
hardly felt, walking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there
have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally
compelled to remain stationary for hours together, waiting till the rain
came before continuing my journey. On the weak and aged, and especially
on delicate Females, the force of attraction tells much more heavily than
on the robust of the Male Sex, so that it is a point of breeding, if you meet
a Lady on the street, always to give her the North side of the way–by no
means an easy thing to do always at short notice when you are in rude
health and in a climate where it is difficult to tell your North from your
South.
Windows there are none in our houses: for the light comes to us alike