Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-02-10
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1926.
lFoR THE GAZETTE.

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Of my own, that Mr.. Symmes may not have
the exclusive claim to originality.
My theory is simply this, that the world or
globe we inhabit, is an animal Of the crustace-
ous species, inclining to the order Of =oophyfe;
that man and all animals who inhabit 1t, are
lice, or animalcule, creeping or swimming on
its surface; and directly or indirectly drawing
their suslenance from the body Of this aerial
monster. Its rivers, lakes, sc. are merely blood
vessels, which keep its fluids in constant cir
cula,ion-and what are the great Atlantic and
Pacific seas, but the auricles and ventricles OF
the heart, which propel and absorb the sangui-
ferrous fluids Of the acknowledgements and
hillocks are merely warts, wrinkles, and other
excresences, occasioued by cutaneous diseases
and old age. This animal, rnonstrous as it
seems to be, is very delicate in the article oft
food; for we can find nothing which it devours,
save sm-5eams, and great part of these are
taken in by absorption through the pores. The
remainder we may suppose to be taken IN at
the southern polar opening, (Which answers
the purpose of mouth;) for we can plainly
see them pass through at the northern po-
lar opening, of clear winters evening, in
the form Of what is called aurora 6oreuiis.--.
This seems to amount 10 demonstration, that
our animal Gas shall in future style the earth)
devours the rays of the sun at the south OPEN
ing during the winter months, and that by the
perestalic motion of its intestines, they are E.
mitted at the northern opening. Whether
during our summer months, it devours at the
northern opening, and by retrosrade motion
of the same intesiines, emits by the south, /
will leave to be determined by those better
skilled in this order Of zoology, than myself.
Yet should thirk that it might be determined
by some Of our southern whalers or sealers, who
winter in extreme southern ATTITUDES, whether
there be southern lights, similar to the aurora
boreaEs, during our summcr?-The object
would be we'll worthy the investigation of the
curious, and determine, at once, whether this
animal has one or two mouths.
That the intestines are inhabited by animals
Of the order lubrici, as we'll as the shell; the
presence of the sea serpent demonstrates, which
is nothing more nor less than large tape uorm
which has accidentally crept from the interior
to the exterior surface. These freaks and rest
less disposition, are not unfreq uent in worms
in the body of the small, two legged, anamal-
Guile, man, and why should we think it strange
that it should take place in the large animal, on
whose shell we crawl. On this monster, ma
mountains, such as Etna, Vcsuvius, SC. are
merely eruptions from the cellular membrane,
which have degenerated, for want Of proper
care, into 6stulas and cancers:-Her lofty for
ests, are merely the soft down of the skin, and
her granite and limestone rocks are but dam
der, or excrements from the cutice.
But how came this animal into existence?
and will it ever perish! Besides giving an ex-
PLANTATION, must request my readers to entirely
divest themselves of scepticism! This world,
or animal, was originally together with all its
sister planets) an egg, laid by comet, which
was occasioned by an embrace Of the sun, dur.
ing one of its periodical visitations. The sun
is the only male Of the solar system;-the CO.
NETS are female: but the poor planets are OF the
neutre gender. During each visit of the comet
TO the sun, the result is an egg, which il drops
in some part Of ETHEREAL space, where it is hatch
ed by the hea, Of the sun, as is the eggs of al
liga,ors, sc. Our world was an egg till the
deluge, when the animal broke the shell, and the
liquor amni flowing over its body occasion
ed the food The shell became broke to pieces
by the struggling OF the animal for birth, was
at length cemented, by the inspissased liquors,
dropped off to small distance and row forms
our moon, whose color is exactly similar to that
Of an egg shell. Saturn's and Jupiter's shells
adhered in different pieces, which occasions
them 10 have many moons: Mercury is not yet
Matched; for on its surface we can observe no
spo,s,-some others Of the planets still have the
shell adhering to the skin-these are devoid OF
moons.