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' TRULY WONDERFUL.
'The following extraordinary letter is co
'siplt'd Horn True ADVERTsiIBER, printed a1
'Cincifinafia,-ss-si(0hio) by Frbncia Mennessien
The "date of the paper from which it is take:
Tk'thsse 1 ffit'ofctjtily. " There" is, however, 8(
much of improbability in the. siwhole story
that we must be made kcquaiotesid with' sitlu
name of" the reaident at Philadelphia, nov
at Bedshrd," who wrote _the letter, before
'we can attach any credisit to 't't.* if it is wctfic
tion, as we strongly suspect it to be, the
author should be detected and exposed, so
attempting such an imppsition on't'he world
it is Mr; Menneasier's duty, to publiassh a]
'si he information he is possessed of on 'thi
tsubject, as- be at least knows who gav
him the letter for publicati'o'n.
" As astonishing as the intssormatlon am
discovery which I now" trhosmit to you, an!
unexpected as the event wasto' me, so mucl
surprised must all the whrid be at the im
portant developement of the all importan
sacts (to the philosophical mind) ol which .
now inform you: conscious ] am of th
f greatnt—siss of the dlSCUVCsy and the nett-ssitj
iof a particular description of't'ne' event
- which led" to and attended a circumstano
which has shed (by means of. the clear c'x
)_ position of facts contained in the manu
scripts hereafter mentioned, and Which wi]
lct be ere long oﬀered to the world lor philo
ssophical—investigationand universal bcnrsilss
, a luminous light into-the dark and int-xptt
l cable abyss of obscurity which has sur
I sounded and enVeloped the heretolore,' 84
l many m-ymerious circumstances of'univcr
sisal deluge* which you know has bsi-en de
ss nietlby the greater number of modern phi
I losophers, particularly of the new schdol
} on the grounds thatithere is not in the cum
: position of this glohe'a sufficient quantity (:
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; water; and it'may Surprtze thephttosophe rss
osa l'uture'day tosiknow that; with many o
; thers, agehtl man oscon'sidetahi'e su-ctneifiss
importance, in'his notes onﬀVl'rgm'iB, {13
acmally made : 'collection to confvtnce'mm
sikind that there-never was an universal de
luge z—At any rate, ev'r-ry person-Will (on
ceive that ralculation and all others of him
si nature, as equally l'utile and'uuphilosopht
cal, for every contemplative nnnd' wnt a
ssonce observe, that although the portion o
water in this globe— is insufficient- to ad
ffi "'7**"*'— the 'suri'acc fifth-= ..M— ""
prtsent siruatlorr"-asintr"forsin1,-si yet, (as war
undoubtedly the case at the time of the de
luge)'ii' the earth should, "as it weress _"—siusil4
within herself," there would be an ample
sufficiency of water- to cover it to a ver)
considerable depth. 'And in this doctrine
so little thought ot by deists, would be ac
counted for, the quantitks-of marine Shells
and Other subsrances, which are do much
and sosi-astonishingly - divchrfi—cd through
numerous parts ot this earth; and ! have
no hesitation water that the (acts which
will shortly be offered to the'world, will
be amplysufficient to" lay open to view and
clearly elusicidate many points of nature and
philosophy'on which heretosore the'most
sagacious genius and most intense'specul-a—
tion has been applied in vain, and nought
attended their investigation but doubt and
uncertainty, and the mind returned from
the jttemptsiequally confounded and con
luse . ,
" My last, you may recollectss, was dared
from Philadclphia, and mentioned my in
tention of makinga survey of (or rather a
philosoPhical tourssto and among the most
important parts of the Appalachian range:
of mountains; in order to make observations
and chymical experimcnts-on the almost in
numerable qualities "Which compose or an
adjacent to-thcm): Accordingly on {he 15th
of April ! lest Pniladrlphia, prepared Wifsith
in'strumc:nts,'81co for the pus-page,. our mu
tual friend-L. R. accompanied me, with a
man'hircd with horses to carry nur'lwgg'agc,
?: . As we of course should traversc the
mountains on foot, 'we took thcsista'ge as far
]s bcdsord cuunty, -(-Ynu 'Wsilll sCCUHCCt'f
mentioned in my former- communication,
hat'lsshadhscsssummcrsi cxplared th': Kit-i
atinny (or Blue mounqins) thcsiTuscarnra, ?
Face-fraud 'Nissicopes-s to one of which " in'
particular,'a mim—ral Of impOrcant 'W'mth,
si'nd of'grcaccdnerUencc in thesi'civilizr-d
voyld, is to' be' had in a very consider-able
siuantitctysswith smtmy "Others of minor mag
siitudc, a descrnpttouof whichsiissilictbe includ. ?
d in my publication. And si'a'tfter masiking
he necessary arrangements,—WC þrocecdcd
osswards Tusscy's mountains, which sila'y'bc- ;
orcctupz Yith considerable trouble We pc-ct
sssimrd-abwtssszxzssxzks among ththiuvzss;
COMMUMCATED.
Extractssqf a letter from (: gentle-Man, resz'
den: qu/zz'laa'elþlzia, to [me friend in the"
place, dated Berfsord, ( Palm ) May let
- 1810. "
pi-...n..-.unn---=s—f—————f———f::
[F ram the Cinez'nndtz' riden-{inn}
From the Fraenum Your-n'ill.
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: and what indeed appeared to a; a Very in
' teresti'ng mass': "Accordingly, we made no
' he about three feet in width and about two
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; the total darkness of the place? to preczure
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_ : advanced about two hundred feet, whssn, as
_ : what appeared to be a door evidently cut in
_ si or a representation, we were uncertain ;"m
_ : tending, howeVer, not to g'w— up withom
_ ! careful examination,we cnz-cttinutd to search,
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{: sird sue-stsitnt'e which any: and since" to have
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pursuing it in a wsisterly chrection about six- si
ty see;, eve came—to a small square roomss.
Which appeared to tsi-rmmate the passage,
with :: Marble b'mch- on two 's-id'es and :
l.1a,.g,ct'ma-sisi'bie table so the middle; On which ;
"was placed at bust With this ins-rlptiou ' in 4
E-Greck on (n.-fron -: " Aramio an— wzfortu- *
lnatc 'stfastger. dZ'iW/z by, a. tempest from his .
sissssssza'tive scas, and strand-us on this new region
m the second ylsictar &] the seomty eighth 0
[y'mpmd- _si:Be/1-91d what man is damned to." '
Ox the table lay :: Sfl'lall- poinard hladc, by
which thcctqhovesssentences no doubt were
'ctch-sssid. We now proceeded out of the
room through a small arch, whldhctwt: found
in one corner-: 'asc-r we had gone about six
zards in a southsi'rly direction-si, we came to
the bottOm case-ﬂight of stalrs. and after as- si
cc'ndi'ng about-forty feet, we arrived- at' :!
landing. and'ffound it termisinatedctsinsia circu
lar room of forty one feet in- Circumference, l
ctal-lzround which were placed small bench- '
es, and a little way from the land-ing- ol the l
, .' almost horiZUntal leVel, for some distance,
ter-ed an archsied passage, six feet high, and
si-fi've feet and a nail wrside siat bottom; after
_ -' stoppsid up with tqussand sand, and in it tile.
,
' vity-of entering on our hands and! knees:
..X si ' w - si - ,
- after We nati proceeded about tWelve feet,
" We found that it 'en'lzrged very-much, so
s'saa "found bet-selve} it:,th'as; gan of the
','mounta'm commonly called Elk-Ridgc,
Scales, there was what appeared to us, and t'
tvhat really was (as We afterwards tongue
"? and at last p=-rceived it hadhmges of a sin
ss'gular'kmd ;si alter srratthirssg otl some pen-i
f'sorm-s, and "almost deniee to those who at
'Vvsshere nature appears in her" most rugged
i remains of an iron k-ctxss;'l)\1\'33 t-l-e 'lﬄk
land hingrs must b- almost corroded, we
w -_t:10l)tl.5'si'(l tn hreait it down, which, aster
r- ;zeutt'd tlfottssi'we-tzﬀectetl ; its fall maile
'a'greactt noi—e which appeared to echo in
many (llrt's tions hel =w : the d't'mp dis dish
td out, Whlch fairly chilled us ; we proceed?
ed ctto enter, but-what was our esttsinish;
msi-nt wh n we sositnd we were at the head
of a fitsi'htss-os s-tassrs.L c'ut out Of she Ssiﬂsid
,;ctsisssi sissctosisicenasid in a circulat- course
'ahou: 150 seet,ssWht.-n we came. to' a land
t-ng, 'whssre We p:rceived two- doors, one to
the right 'and the other on the" ic'ft "hand,
both stone, we effected opening the one the
right, ttssht-u'We entered n-sispacious halls stir
nishss-d with two chairs, amble, kc-ttle and
several hasons,"ailns veryctfine marble, With
seVeral heatttihd sss'atues : but conceive mv
surprise" on exctming them, to find they had
not the French, English or Italian feature,
but the contour at the face entirely Grecian;
the one which is a fssmale repreSent-ssztive. is
truly el gent. altnosr equal tn works-tanship
to tht! Venus tle Qledicrs :wby what means
those came here we could not divine. but
it sitte-J- us with astonishznent, as it must e
very person ;"and'hardly will the reason of
people-admit the possibilisity of their being
nere,'-t:nless they behold with their own
eyes, whatappeareso inexplicable. 'l—Vhen
we'had examined the apartment (in which
We have discovered other very t'alttabie ar
siticles, among others, agcld cup very cu- ss
riously wroutght) we proceeded to c-x;mine
where the o'thsic-t door led to ; on opening it, i
"which'we did without much troublesswe en- :
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' what now "appearedssto be an siextensive ca
vcrn. Accordingly, we dis-charged siss'fissur
man-{or a lamp,"with which, "after about 15
minute-t spent by us in the utmtost suspense,
he returned, and we proceeded to an exami
'nutiofi: by aid of the light we perceived
.that the chasm run directly forward on "an
l 3 snltd rock, hutctwhether tt wassi really one,
t
:
fand hardly high enough-for us to walk with
siease,ctand not-more than six feet wide ; we
i been ttsiossntl, We tlrsetnsierrtl &: large-k— y-hnle,
'we supposed, reached the end, but on ex
amining the sides. we perceived on the right
tempt to explor'ectssher, any means of access:
delay in proceeding toekamine it ;- we had
not gone far when our notice Will attracted
by what appeared to usssa'small apeztu-l'c
in the earth, at about twenty feet perpendi
cular height, and ahoitt ten feet from the
top of a precipice, the aperture appeared to
feet high, directly under a projecting ro'clt ;
as wet-Were, how: ver, determined on exa
mining isstct, Wc-sell some small trees in order
to make a kind ssolsihdder bsiy whirhsiwe might
'a-zcend ;- on attaini'ng the place,' "we found
it considerably stopped at a few sect from
the entrancesi, whieh [ut- us Under thss neces
that we could walk almost erect, ahdby
casting a stone in, '"tve inerceived that 'it
srruck-agaist no o'bstssa'ciesishr essconsiderahle
time, c'onsiz.l,-qm-ntly we concluded it mustbe
veryssspacioos, but tvere obliged (owing to
a light before we could pr0cectet to eJcplore
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Whiting Washington
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siW'ill he Bold on the lSth instantet .? Occtw
? M. at the subserilwr's (sianlcn,
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et ol pap't-rs which contain, beside, ::
him-last skrtch us himself (, shut jss"
from which' I now give you) a Thus; ;"
script containing rc'ficctions and (limit
tions, both'historigal and Philosophicalsiss
specting this continent at that early pus
and also some 'sac-ts concerning hiso
country, which are of infinite imponm:
LYOU do not read Greek. 'I' hay,-"m,
ed-t—z few .incsfor your satis;}tccion__
l ..s Aramio the son (lflEStl'ddcmua hay,
'snilt-d from Cormth on a voyage to Briz'
'inossrder to make discoveri s in-sithgsse:
known z-sssi-as,siwas, when two days mill-:
Hercules? Pillars ovutaktn by a most}
mendcms swrm ; five dctssays we werekcamss
i with tenipe'ttoui; fuzy on the mountain
wave.-,. of the ocean, expecting css'ctl'lz
'l ment 10" be envelopcd 'in the brinysidct
' nor did we aspect ought'but death, when
the 4t—izsi'h day the stormsiahated, but ,;
' thirds of our men "were :: ready buried]
si she Sea, {he rest "Bttfsikillcdct in navigni
sicould not managethe ship, but beatingah,
ssas the wind and" tvav'cs'cdtried us, wcan
rxpication of thirty six-days t'vcre dro
"within eight l'ea'guj of an'-'ss—unltnowu cu
ty,-{and in trying to arrive'atland-our lt
' s- lspiit on the tocks and soul;, and two
ly arrived'aase'on ShOl'Co"
" Et'tct ! ing ! shall be able to send ycut
"Volume 0! pntlsioaophicul enquiries which
requestedss-and also this new though and:
* work, which contains observations, philos
phical and skilful}; hold and seiemiE-z.
"" Your friend, &c."
ﬂ- Printising in all its si
CS. neatly executed atthxso
'Plants, consisting of 225 pots 2nd had;
].cmon, ()mnge, Chadoc, llydsfinllca' ss
tranium, Myrtle assortcd, China Rose! ,
Comel—isid, Yellow Jasmine, Calichontuszisil
here vita, ancgranate double 8" [0
ﬂowel'siing, Portugal and Corunna [Big-bill
ander double and single si-zwcrlslgv d
Passion Flowers,-Laurel, Aloe assorte 7
acinctth and Tulip Roots.
a '* in'Fre'dst'i'cl-i county, Virginia.
be?) a fire, p'sace; thc'fiue of wffisich 75 ss
up with 51an finds-and, "*TdOU'>t\-d;ss.siﬄ
in at top : hot conceive. Curss am Fsiazsi
tonishmrnt and sterlings, on hsi'iN-ld- 14
object which at once sirivcucd sin,. uhmh
tention, and appalled us as in me wzctk an
mr; c-xtendsscd on a kind of in;-,u-ctsssmsi'hþu.
leaves and sl'raw, by the signs: braid-4
once warmed by the: exhiluuung msimsiss
0! Vital spirits, now cold as the miss
rocks by which he is surroundcd . ;ssssdsi
held brshrc— us the: person ofa mass; :"Þ
. the particular Propcrtivs of she mass hsik
: for so long a um: prescmct almw hsssi
; about lh-si conssmon stature, Well sometime
T'handzomesi, hsirs dress was that 05" The fctgrsi'ss
Grcck and of ancxcellem quctsiy. Annss.
:. amincd his CIO'sikts sim hop-(5 of findinsstss -.
psi'zipcors nr engravings by which "Si-0
obtam some unlormotum TCSPCcting hFosi
we were not ctlSImeﬂtcd, so in One Oi'ml:
"The subscribes o—ssetcts for Sal: tfi
valuzthlc tract of LAI'LD whereon he l'OY'
Sides, known by the name of the ll'hitsf.
Hottom. This land issurp'asscd by none?
scrtllitv'of snil'isin the ctinn'ty of lctrcdcticch
tontaitts seven hundred and thirty set-est
'wartls of one thitsid in' 'zluablctimhersiss
clenrecl-ssland'tmtlcr good enclosurcs 'i'iz'ss
are on the land a hand-some Bi'ltssii Dwess-ss
House, & cond ]cc House, and evcrzss'rsict
out house necessaryct'shr a (Emily. I-"mty'
fish" acrcsos thislund is-"handsomely sin-t'
and could bcssconvertecl into 'exeellchtmc—ati'
Also, a large o:*chs—.t'<l?)s\'ah1'able Ap'siblsslf'
other st'tzit. This land lies vss'ithinttt'orI-sifi
of Huttlc Town in said ('oitnty. ,
The subsiscri crsivct'ill also SellsiaYZ-"i:
able two story hOUSE, and LOT (great:
lour acrcs of ground, with every neccsi—Lx.
out house on mid lot, in the :Zzovcnsicnzzﬄ
town.
It is needless to say more, yansssiss
tho-se Who wish to purchase will fiz'stﬄ'"
property.
. nn-rL-ofc ful-;];L Osil'hl'e-l' !); of no.. (
'I be ctunexpzred Lease 01":
years and four months osuvo and :! ha'sss'
?pbj'e'm to twenty five pmmds a year 1'9 sii'si
she :ease can be renewed for ten years.-vl
all the improvcments on it.—all (he "ssssss'
HCSa and between I and 4000 fruitsfctct
ﬂurserzy, the mosZ of them grashctctﬄ'si
best kind of fruits, fit to remove ' ZTYct'
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si-TRACT Of. L AND for 'SAL]
All. his Stock of Grccn Hall?
ALSO, ssssnh
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