The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-20
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Captain futile, who has had twenty
four years experience in Arctic naviga.
ton, found the further north he went
the warmer the climate. At 78o he
began to find open water; at 800 the dip
of the needle was so great that when
up to e1' he took soundings in thirty
feet OF water, and brought up a mineral
substance mixed with particles of gold,
which he supposed was the cause of the
needle dipping, when in reality he was
passing over the center of the North
Polar Opening, according to the Symmes
theory. He says, when up 10 820, his
needle pointed south, when he thought
he was going north, which is precisely
the experience Of Captain Parry, who
made five voyages, and found the fur
ther north he went the milder grew the
climate. Captain Tuttle found an open
channel eighteen. miles wide, that led
him up into the open Polar Sea. The
channel was five hundred and forty feet
deep, and the current running at the
rate of four miles per hour, and the
water was warm, comparatively speak
ing. When he got into the open sea, he
picked up, floating on the surface, "fresh
caves of plaintains, bananas, and other
tropical plants, showing that they had
been off the trees but a short time"
In the month of October he saw female
whales and migratory birds going up
the channel, and they commenced going
back with their young in July, showing
that they went up into q warmer coun.
try to give birth to their young.
This precisely corresponds with what
Captain Hall reported to the Secretary
of the Navy-that the wild animals and
water fowls that come down to Green.
land in the spring, start back north il
October. Captain Tuttle sailed west
latter getting into the open Polar Sea
three hundred and eighty-four miles
and struck a country inhabited by
people never seen before, who spoke He
brew, and were very tall, Roman-nosed
wore whiskers and long black hair
This must he the lost tribes of Israel
that "went north and dwelt in a LIANT
where never man dwelt BEFORE" Ct.
Esdras, chapter kill
Some of their old temples have beef
seen in ruins by an Austrian sea cap
tain, who reported to his Government
within the last five years, but he coul,
not tell by whom they we're built. Tn
tradition is that the people who bull
them went further north. Captain Tut
tie reports that all wild animals of tina
country are much larger than those seel
elsewhere.
The white bear has been known to al
rive at the weight of two thousand t
three thousand pounds, and he foun
the remains of a mastodon that was sur
posed to be thirty or forty feet lon
when alive. Captain Hall also spoke 9
the immense size of all the wild animal
he saw in the extreme North, and sal
if there is a people there they must b
giants. for it was such a healthy cou1
try. Not one of his men was sick a da,
Now, why is it that the Symmes theor
is looked upon with so little interest b
the public, when it has stood the test (
five years trial, and the further mort
explorers 90 the more truth is found {
its being not only a true theory, but
fixed fact? Mr.. A. Symmes has repul
j lished a work written by his father Q
j the subject of his theory, which
offered to the public; but they seem nj
.. to care about knowing what the theol
. is, although every day brings new proc
of its correctness. A.