Article #29 - A person's Shadow

Is there any place south of the tropic of capricorn from which a person’s shadow would fall north?

This question may be understood in two different ways. It may be construed to mean whether [sic] a person’s shadow would fall north of the tropic of capricorn, or it may mean northward from the place on which the person may be standing. Taking the first as the meaning I will answer that there is none to my knowledge, taking the second, I answer there are many places, and at the south pole is one of them.

                                    Harvey Martin

Feb. 15th 1851