WALKING IN CIRCLES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can any of your readers give a satisfactory explanation of the statement, usually accepted, that those trying to make their way out of the Bush or any dense wood often,' after prolonged walking, find themselves where they started, thus proving they had moved in a circle ?
I heard an interesting theory put forward some months ago. It was that most people are imperceptibly longer one side than the other (usually the left). This gives a bias, so that turning to one side comes instinctively more natural than keeping straight on. I know nothing of wandering in the Bush, but many cyclists have told me, if they have to turn it is " far easier " to do so to the left. I have never understood why this should be.---I am. Sir, &c., M. G. C.
[Probably no pair of legs or arms arc exactly equal in power. Eyes, certainly, are hardly ever equal. There is nearly always a governing or stronger eye. The governing leg perhaps deter- mines the direction of the circular movement. We Suggest that it is easier for right-handed persons to turn to the left either on a bicycle or on their legs. Conversely a left-handed person ought to find it easier to turn -Co the right. But does he ?—En. Spectator.]
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