The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-08-02

found at or about the SD of north
latitude; and does not Parry prove
it so? 1t also says that more water
fowls and wild animals will be
found up there than anywhere else
in creation; and did not Kane's ex
petition find open water at the SD,
and water fowls so abundant that in.
shooting a single bullet among
them would kill two or three every
shot, and they found their nests so
thick on the mountain side that
they could have gathered a wagon
load OF eggs, and a gale blew for
three days from the north and came
so warm as to melt much of the
snow and ice that they had travelled
over when going north, and they
gathered many kinds of grasses and
flowers and took them back to the
vessel to show them to DR.. Kane
what an open country they had
'found-yet in spite of this, who has
any confidence in the Symmes the
Dry?
Did not Capt. Ross when in his
northern ATTITUDES make mention of
warm winds coming out of the
north that melted the snow and Ice
about him and far south of him?
Could these warm winds come out
of such a country as Sir Isaac New
ton represents it to be? Could wa
terfowls and flowers flourish there
either? Are Parry, Ross and Kane
to be believed? Did not Capt.
Hall push his way northward in his
steam vessel Polaris, through the
ice up to latitude SD 16m and
found open water plenty, and would
have gone farther but for his old
drunken sailing master, Burlington,
whose heart it was proven was not
in the expedition, and swore ''he'd
be damned if the vessel should 90
any farther" and made them 90
into winter quarters at Sid 3Sm
where, during the next summer
they caught birds, butterflies, cater
pillars, spiders, bugs, beetles and
many smaller insects reported on
by DR.. Washington, after their re
turn, by DR.. Bissels, who was with
the expedition, yet who believes in
the Symmes theory Is DR.. Bissels
to be believed? After Capt. Hall
went into winter quarters at Sid
3Sm, he tooh a sled-ride northward
of only fifty miles, and came to an
open sea, where he encamped for
two days, and while there he wrote
his last dispatch to the Secretary of
the Navy, in which he says; 81
find this q much warmer country
than 1 expected, and it abounds
with life-seals, game, geese, ducks,
musk-cattle, wolves, foxes, deer,
rabbits, cartridges, Jennings, DC"
Snipe, plover and all kinds Of wad
ing birds and one squirrel were
caught.
He also said: 81 can see land and
water as far north as seventy miles,
or up to 93d 5m., and l see a dark,
nimbus cloud, which seems always
there, and prevents my determining
whether it is land or water beyond" y
That dark, nimbus cloud hung over
the open Polar sea up to SD ON,
which is in exact accordance with
the Symmes theory,as before stated.
Another fact about the open Po-
lar Sea took place on board the Pc
laris, when Buddington refused to
90 any further north with her, and
that is, when they were about to
turn back, Mr.. Meier, who was one
of the scientific corps, said he would
like to measure the distance from
the vessel to a certain water cloud
that was seen in the north, under
which they all agreed the Open Po
lar Sea must be. So he got out his
instruments, and first found the po-
sition of the vessel, which lay at
SD and On, and then said it was
sixty-four miles up to the cloud,
and as sixty.ni is a degree, and
they were at sd On, the sixty four
miles shows that the open sea was
at or about the SD, as laid down in
the Symmes theory, which proves
that part of the theory true by &C
tual measurement, and yet in all the
plans that have been mentioned to
reach the pole, no allusion is made
to the probability of the Symmes
theory being true, when there is
more evidence of its truth than of
any other theory.
Another strong evidence of its
truth is proven by explorers, who
say that during the fall season OF
the year all the wild animals 60
north and return in the spring, fat,
and bringing their young with them.
What does this mean? Would they
90 to a cooler climate to produce
their young and to get fat. Ger
tainly not, but must pass over the
verge and into a warmer country,
such as Capt. Symmes says will be
certainly found beyond the SD OF
north latitude. If Capt. Mares had
staid the second summer up north,
as he was prepared to do, he would
have realized a very different state
of affairs; for it is nearly always the
case that one extreme follows an
other, and the next would have
been such as Parry, Ross, Kane,
Hall and Tyson found when they
we're up therefor where nsy found
open water he found ice.