tentive and ajciit'ul observer of the works of na¬ 
ture, whether when employed in examining 
the most wretched or the most sublime, will 
lind that judgment, and infinite wisdom and in¬ 
genuity, has equally prevailed throughout.— 
Can it then be supposed for a moment, that 
the internal part of the earth we inhabit has re¬ 
ceived less attention from the Creator, than those 
objects which are under our immediate and unim¬ 
peded inspection 
Respectfully, 
JNO. CLEVES SYMMES. 
Items to be treated of in future numbers- 
All the data I have yet obtained, afford proofs 
and indications, (which I hope soon to shew) 
that the following paragraphs are well founded 
and true, viz:— . s 
1. The data 1 have yet obtained indicate, that 
the center of the north polar opening', is not at 
the axis of the earth, but a considerable dis¬ 
tance from it, on the side next America. 
2. That the magnetic needle regards the 
center of the polar opening, rather than the 
(garth’s axis. 
3. That the needle should so turn, on enter¬ 
ing a polar opening, as to have the same end 
N. o r S. within, that was N. or S. without, \iz 
turn end for end. r ,, 
4. That this sphere, north wards, as far as tnc 
sixtieth or seventieth degree, is rather a por¬ 
tion of a spheroid protruded towards its axis, 
than a depressed or oblate one; althougn tne 
whole earth taken together, is evidently a 
spheroid flattened at the poles. 
5. That much of the water developed to air 
or vapor within our tropics, is.condensed to a- 
bundant rains, far within tne sphere, by the 
-gravity gradually increasing continuously* from 
our tropics towards the internal equator ; there¬ 
by setting free latent heat and light, and thus 
making room within, for a new succession or 
air and clouds, which are or should be received 
through either polar opening alternately semi, 
annually. d 
6. That the haze (or smoky appearance) of 
The Indian Summer, comes from within the 
sphere, although south winds often tnieken it, 
bv condensation, or by heaping it upon itself; 
unless indeed, there be an outer ring or sphere 
to yield it. 
7. That the northwestwardly winds are gen¬ 
erally sucked, either from without the polar 
opening of one or other ol the more narrow 
icrial spheres above us, or, out from some one 
■or more of the poles oi the inner spheres, or 
from midway between this and the next inner 
sphere, or occasionally * rorn a ^’> un d that the 
nottheaistwardly winds are protruded trom the 
concave surface of'this sphere, (as are the S.E. 
monsoons, which prevail most in India; be¬ 
cause the greater half of the south polar open- 
inn lies between the south axis and, India, owing 
