The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-05-25


teresting description OF the strang,
land, in which he said: "We hirel
horses at the rate Of a half penny pc
mile, and rode over good deal of coun
try; we saw fields of fax, hemp anC
wheat. We passed rich mines of iron
the ore of which was so excessively
magnetic as to be able to attract anC
hold up very heavy weights; we alsC
had news of the existence of mines Of
copper, and of ten or twelve mines o
| gold, the latter being worked to an out.
put of from 80 to 20 tons of the precious
metal per year. We saw wheat in mag
nificent abundance, and it sold at from
six to seven pence per bushel of 4(
pounds. There was a great variety oi
| furs, peltries and skins of all kinds and
| in overwhelming quantities-one store
! shop containing over a thousand mag
nificent buffalo robes. And everything
was as proportionately cheap as the
wheat. The inhabitants besought us
earnestly to do everything possible to
open up for them the commerce of the
rest of the world, and it was principal
ly for this reason that Mr.. SeebOhm
read his account to the society, and en-
deavOred to impress on them the i'm
mense benefits to accrue from the
tTade.'I
have read also a statement from one
Capt. Tuttle, who claims to have Wis
tied the same country. He states that
the inhabitants are Of brownish color,
having black hair and boards and aqui-
line noses, and speak the Hebrew
tongue. The men are from seven to
eight and half feet in stature, and the
women are almost as large, and are
well-appearing and virtuous. These
people besought Capt. Tuttle also to en-
deavor to open Up commercial inter-
course for them with other countries.
Now, from Capt. Tuttle's description,
may not these people have sprung from
the lost tribes of Israel, of whom Ezra
says: "And they went up the Euphra-
tes toward the north, and they inhab-
tied land not known before to man."
Tuttle goes on to say that the commerce
in ivory is 4 very important one, and
that the mastodon, the elephant and the
monster buffalo wander over vast
plains, on which, in places, flourish
trees that can compare with the giants
of California. None OF these mariners
were acquainted with the theory of
Symmes, and believed that the coun-
tries formed parts of the Russian en-
pire in Siberia. Capt. Wiggins and
the new country,) on visiting Russia,
while in st. Petersburg, they spoke of
their discoveries, and the Russians de-
clared that they had no knowledge Of
any such lands, and that they did not
belong to them. Symmzonia is the
name that my father proposed to give
to the country which these mariners
now claim to have discovered and
whose existence he had before upheld.
Capt. Tuttle says that "the wild ami
mails of Symmzonis with which name
[ now baptize it, are much larger than
ours OF the same species, and that about
so degrees north, there was a dense
and the country was beauti-
ful, every acre producing from forty to
fifty bushels of wheat"
Now, how could Nordensjold, Wig
gins and Tuttle have encountered these
If they had not been follow
ing the indications of their needle
which pointed to the south after they
passed somewhat beyond the 81 de-
degrees north, and encountered the po-
lar sea? The professor, citing the ex-
perience of Capt. Perry, says: Let us
suppose now that he had followed the
course which his needle marked toward
the south, would he not have fallen in
with inhabitants as did the others? but
had he then continued on what would
have been the result? and to what other
point could he go but to the south pole ?
Has there been any notice heretofore e |
Of such countries or such people belong |
ing to Russia? And had they so be- |
onged would it not, ere this, have been |
| well-established fact? And if these |
countries are not situated on the inside |
Of the earth where can they possibly be |
ocated !? Siberia and Greenland may /
very we'll prolong themselves toward |
he hollow portion of the earth, and /
would then, no doubt, constitute the re-
ZION where every autumn go the ami
nails that year after year disappear
rom Siberia and Greenland, taking a
lortherly route and which return in the
pring with their broods of young.
Where ends Siberia and Greenland, and
where begins Symmzonia? This is
question yet to be settled, and it would
urprise me very little if Lieut. De Long
ucceeded in casting some light on the
ubject. 1t Is probable that he may
,ear some discoveries confirming the
heory of Symmes, and if he should
,rove the truth of the statements of
Tuttle, etc, but a short time
will elapse before we shall have lines of
teamers unfolding the riches of this
land. Prof. Towne says that
he aurora borealis will be the subject of
pecial study by De Long. Its connec-
ion with the electrical excitatiOn
round the sun will probably be fully
Onfirmed, or it will fall into complete
iscredit. 1t has received already a Sc
ere shock, owing to the experiences of
Or. Bissels, who accompanied Capt.
Iall in his Arctic expedition. Prof.
Ienry, of the Smithsonian Institution,
two instruments capable ofan-
the most Insignificant quanti-
les OF electricity in the atmosphere and
Sissels carried as special charge from
'rof. Henry that he should determine
whether or not electricity had any
hing to do with the aurora borealis.
)r. Bissels says: "Being wintered in
altitude 81 degrees 3S minutes, at which
,oint we spent five months, observed
he aurora constantly, and in each case
used the electrical instruments. was,
owever, never at any time able to dis
over the least spark of electricity in
he atmosphere" II the five months of
onstant experiment of DR.. Bissels does
ot explode the scientific idea that the
-Irora borealis is caused by electricity,
rankly, | do not know what IL can
rove. Now, ii these aurora bear rela-
ion to the interior OF the earth, is il
TRANCE that thev should appear at the
ole, the natural center of extreme cold,
nd when there is the verv least
mount of solar influence ard at the
My parts of the globe where it would
e possible that there should be open
1gs? Is it not also strange that they
ppcar in their greatest splendOr in the
JCal absence of the sun during his
journey in winter? | do not 4
estate to say that an exploration of
be interior world will readily give US a
ltis sfactory explanation about this phe-
omena. The aurora must be to
reat extent the product OF powers and
dement's that exist in the interior
'orld, ana from which they are ema-
atiOns. | 10 not fear to assert that il
n interior world does not exist in COM
.unicAtion with the Polar regions,
here would not appear these grand
that light up their gor-
eous panoramas in the north, and
'hich are calculated to awaken the
lost sublime emotions in the minds Of 7
nose who witness them.
Reason, common sense and all the {
of the universe conspire to ,
Ipport and establish upon a solid base
he theory OF Symmes
AMERICAS SYMMEs.
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