The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-11-03
IS IT AoUITELUS?
The Symmes Entrance to Mid.
Earth Defended.
ED1roR AMERICAN sKNrRY-

! LILO 1Obu lISJ., lS IuS llISt Lldu vi SCI
snce that has written on the subjeC
who gave any credence to the Symme
J theory by even admitting that it Is ''pos
sible, perhaps probable" that there
an open polar sea, as is contended for i
said theory, and thinks Lieut.. De Lon
with the steamer Jeanette may
spending the winter OF 1881 at the pole
and goes on to state what may probabl,
be the physical phenomena" of hi
surroundings. He then speaks Of d lit
tie book issued by his father, Capt. JohI
CleVes Symmes, in 1926, in which h
contends that the "earth is hollow anC
habitable within and widely open at the
polss." This book has been mucl
sought after and copy of it readily
! brings twelve dollars when found. Why
should this little book become SO Valua
bic if the "Symmes theory" had no
awakened many converts to the truth o
its being "possibly, perhaps probably
true. L presume the professor Is like
! the majority of scientific men in believ-
ing some of the planets hollow and hab-
table, and if they are, why may not ouI
planet also be hollOwI If she is moi
hollow the scientific men had better
pull down the spheres Of Saturn, erase
the belts OF Jupiter, destroy the rings OF
Mars, extend the cuSps of Venus or
show why this earthly planet should
be different from others. Capt. Symmes
contends in his little book that the
"hole" the professor alludes to is two
thousand miles in extent and is imper-
ceptibly run into and can only DC no.
ticed by the change in the heavenly
bodies and the difference in the eXpanse
OF the visible horizon and the change in
the position of the needle as the eXplo-
rer passes over the eightieth degree OF
north latitude. The professor is right
in saying that "Capt. Symmes believed
this internal ocean was filled with is
lands similar to the external conti-
nents, and those islands were inhabited
and receive their light and heat" not
from a ''smalI sum-" as he says, but
from our sun, which, by the known
laws OF light, supply the interior world
by reflection and refraction.
The professor does not seem to know
that this interior world has been sailed
into and people found inhabiting a
richer country than has ever yet been
discovered on this outer shell of ours.
The London Times of last year con-
tained an article giving a description OF
a voyage of Capt. Virgins accompanied
by a Mr.. Seebohm aud others who
sailed from Dundee in a steamer and
pene rated the extreme north and got
into the open polar sea and found a
rich country inhabited by an iutelli-
gent people, and made a report 9f il TO
the art society of London in their house
on John street Adelphi, Mr.. Clements
X. Markham, G. B.; f. II. Q. s.; f. l..
5. K. ). A. in the chair. Mr.. See
bohm read paper giving description
of the country, saying: "We hired
horses at a halfpenny mile to ride
the country and saw linseed,
flax, hemp, hides, tallOw, wool, etc. land
iron ore so rich and highly magnetic as
to lift quite large needle" He was
told of copper mines and ten or twelve
gold mines, that each would yield from
i've TO seven tons yearly, and he saw
wheat in great abundance selling at six
pence a pood of forty pounds, and a
greater variety of furs and skins than |
he had any idea of, and in one ware
house he saw more than one thousand
elk skins, and everything as cheap in |
as was the wheat. The peo-
Pile besought him and Capt. Wigglns |
10 get up trade and traffic with our peo-
Pile, and that was the object of their re-
port to the art society. | have also |
seen a report of Capt. Tuttle, who Wis
ted the same country and people, and |
gives more particular description of
,he people. He says: "They are dark !
sh in hue, black hair and wiskers, Ro- |
nan nose, and speak Hebrew, and the |
men are seven or eight feet high aud |
stout built, and the women are nearly |
Is large as the men, and good looking |
md virtuous, and they also besought |
him to try and open up trade between |
)ur country and them" Are not these |
people the lost tribes of Israel, that |
Ezra says, "went up the Euphrates to |
he north, and dwelt in land where |
never dwelt man before?" Capt. Tut |
lie says the ivory trade is big thing |
among those people, and that the mas
.odon, elephant and elk roam at large |
through their forests, and that some OF |
,he trees would compare with the big |
.rees OF California.
Neither of these travellers knew any |
hing of the Symmes theory, and |
thought the new country must be part |
,f Siberia, and Capt. Virgins and Nor |
lenskiold, who also visited this new
went to Russia and at st. Pc |
,ersburg reported their discoveries but |
,he Russians, who claim to own all of
Siberia, said they set up no claim to the |
nor jurisdiction over the peO- |
pie they found. Symmzoniai is the name |
my father intended to call the country |
he said could be found in the extreme |
north.
Capt. Tuttle says the wild animals OF
SymmzoniA (as l shall call it) are as
much larger than ours as the people are
larger than us, and he was told that
four hundred miles north OF them there
were many people and a fine country,
where from forty to sixty bushels ot
wheat was raised to the acre. Now how
was this country found by NOrdensk-
jold, Virgins and Tuttle, il it was not
by following the indications of their
needle, that pointed south after they
passed the Sth degree of north latitude,
by Prof. Towne as the expe-
rience of Capt. Parry.
Now suppose Capt. Parry had fol-
lowed as his needle pointed, south, and
had not found people to stop with, as
the others did, but kept on south, what
would have been the consequence?
Where else could he have come out but
at the south pole. Were such a people
or country ever heard of before? And
il il had belonged to Russia would she
not have made il known long ago? III
this new country and people are not
within the hollow of the earth, where is
it? Siberia, like Greenland, may extend
into the hollew of the earth where the
wild animals go that leave Greenland
every fall and go north and come back
in the spring, fat, and bring their young
with them. Where Siberia and Green
land should end and Symmzonia begin,
is a question yet TO be settled, and
should not be surprised if Lieut.. De
Long would be able to throw some
light on this subject and bring strong
confirmation OF the truth of the Symmes
theory. Should his explorations con-
firm those of Virgins and Tuttle our
American people will not be long in
getting up line OF steamers to Symm-
zonis, to more fully develop those gold
mines that yield gold by the ton and
furnish such grand hunting for game as
may be found there Professor Towne
SAYS: .'Ths aurora borealis will be a
subject OF special study by Lieutenant
De Long. Its connection with electric
al excitement on the sun will be likely
to be fully established or wholly dis
credited" twas wholly discredited by
DR.. Bissels, who was the scientific man
of Capt. Halls expedition. He was fur
nished by Professor Henry OF the Smith
sonian Institution with two instruments
that would detect the least particle Of
electricity in the atmosphere, and he
xx-as es sneciaiIV CHARGED nv the r,ro fa=sor