Th.,. beyond N . !al ,„ u<lt , /5 
the sjfle where the verge is sout , 
the sun is seen near the northern horizon, he 
must appear much higher above the verge ot 
the further side, than' he really is, owing to re¬ 
fraction ;—and that it is extraordinary refrac¬ 
tion (perhaps aided by an extensive . atmos- 
pliere, which in high latitudes makes him look , 
dull, like the moon) his elevation should, how- | 
ever, he only in relation to the said further ; 
verge, andiiot in relation to the heavens. 
18. That, mackerel, cod, whale, and the,, 
musk ox, inhabit far towards the internal equa¬ 
tor, as the first and last breed when absent; ' 
(as docs the sperm whale, if not many of the? ] 
black ones) and as the fat and flesh of each 
readily developes (when without the sphere, : 
where the centrifugal motion somewhat lessens 
the force of gravity) to a more fluid state, and 
late in the fish season, in our seas, and Buffalo 
season in the N., to a more volatile musk-like 
rancidity, than is common to local fish or ani¬ 
mals. 
19. That, the polar verges, of cur sphere, at 
least the liquid parts, as well as the verges of 
the outer aerial spheres, yield to the gravity or 
action of the sun and moon, so as to affect our 
weather at the conjunctions, oppositions, and 
quadratures, owing to the air being either suck-- 
ed in, or forcibly protruded, by such action. 
The variableness of the winds and their cess.x- 
tion at night, may depend much on the revol¬ 
ving and balancing of the inner spheres, to¬ 
wards, ov from the sun, according to their rela¬ 
tive bouancy. 
20. That, tornadoes proceed from a convul¬ 
sed disruption of the first aerial sphere above 
us, (many of such spheres must exist, according 
to my theory,) through which fractures, are 
forced down gushes of confined and highly rat¬ 
ified elastic fluid, escaped from the mid-plane 
cavity, of an upper aerial sphere, the conden¬ 
sation of which fluid, on its approaching and 
reaching the earth, increases its whirling ac¬ 
tion, and sometimes produces a scorching heat, 
| by setting free that caloric which was before 
I latent. Such, perhaps, are the suffocating 
j winks of Egypt and Arabia. 
21. That, the blaze or fire of our volcanoes, 
is the heat set free from a latent state, by the 
elastic fluid of the mid-plane cavity of the 
Sphere, being forced, or spontaneously rising, 
up to where the greater gravity of the surface 
condenses its molecules, to their original stony 
base at Vesuvius, and stony and watery base at 
He cl a and at the hot springs about Hecla; some¬ 
what, as the gas out of the tube of a gas light 
apparatus, yields up its latent heat by condensa¬ 
tion, after being further ratified by inflamma¬ 
tion, on being pressed by the incumbent atmo¬ 
sphere and cooled by extending f rom the heat¬ 
ed nucleus. 
