questioned in a court of a! ^. ui ^; n tr pro 
judged by the world after a heaim D 1 
Is a pious one; that there is n a » 
W« in it; that it is «"*»•>“*£ £ 
supported by principle and by hcb.M 
its supporters have nothing to feat tion 
any sort of test that can be applied to it. 
The author is charged with over doin 
the matter, by being too enthusiastic; and 
\s told, that it would be better policy not 
to take such high ground at first, but dis¬ 
pense with concentric spheres lor the pre¬ 
sent, and maintain only one sphere, &c. 
The reply is, that he does reserve some 
of his conclusions to be ripened by further 
reflection; others, however, though too 
new to be readily admitted by the world, 
are necessary to exemplify with due con¬ 
sistency the first principles of the theory, 
such for example is that of concentric 
spheres. 
Now is the time for America to shew 
her enterprise. The difficulty of getting 
as far north as Baffin, Ross, or Barry went, 
is as nothing : from thence an armed force 
of one or two hundred men, could travel 
with hand sledges on the snow and ice, 
as Hearne did, and as they return from 
the woodland country in the spring, haul, 
as he did, light bark canoes to cross the 
rivers and lakes, which open at that sea¬ 
son before the snow disappears. 
As certainly as this new theory is true 
and Hearne an honest journalist, so ccr~ 
tainly could the party soon reach that 
country ot abundant game which Hearne 
describes; in travelling through which, he 
did not complain of cold, although he trav¬ 
elled all winter, and had many Indian 
women in company. 
There appears to be this advantage in 
making the trip in winter (in case the 
* hl P s cannot pass the ice northward in 
September) that the waters are then all 
bridged with ice, although the cold is not 
excessive; this is most probably owino* to 
me centrifugal action produced in °the 
c oncave, by the rotation of the earth ope- 
and 
