Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/363 - At the Mountain Top

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 * At the Mountain Top
 * "When I was in Italy I was taken to the top of a mountain
 * and shown that a mug would hold less liquor at the top of the mountain than in the valley beneath.
 * Can you tell me," asked Professor Rackbrane, "what mountain this might be that has so strange a property?"