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I'm not aware that anyone has done these calculations, but I wouldn't be
surprised if Kevin Mac Donnell turns out to have the answer.

If you decide to do the computation yourself, be sure to include Twain's
47-mile nighttime trek around his & Harris's hotel room (A Tramp Abroad,
Ch. XIII).

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Folks;  I'm being asked whether any scholar has totaled up the
> (approximate=
> ) number of miles that MT covered in his lifetime? Mississippi, east-west
> t=
> ravels in America, the 29 crossings of the Atlantic, the round-the-world
> tr=
> ip?
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> Is there any such total -- or even guesstimate -- by an intrepid scholar
> ou=
> t there??
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>
> -hb
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> Dr. Hal Bush
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> Dept. of English
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> Saint Louis University
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> 314-977-3616
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> author website:  halbush.com
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