freedom, in case those fluids were expan¬ 
ded by the heat, or to let the-condensation 
within afforded a vacuum,solid crusts 
of the spheres would, in either case, be 
disrupted successively, one after the oth¬ 
er, and hence lose their regular rotation, 
and fall in fragments to the earth; the fall 
of this body or cluster of matter is not a 
solitary instance, others have fallen in al- 
I most all known parts of the earth, attend¬ 
ed with phenomena more or less similar.” 
* That part of the moon which we antiently 
supposed to be a sea, and hence obtained its 
r if, appears to me, to be a section of the out- 
phere of an original planeAvhich was smaller 
iantlie moon, and which, ofrt^pntact, had sunk 
into the body of the moon and become a part 
thereof. This part of the moon, may be com¬ 
pared in appearance, to the chrystal of a watch 
pressed on to an elastic ball, the diameter of 
which ball [or moon] is greater than the diame¬ 
ter of the sphere, of which the chrystal might 
have been a true section. 
Saturday Morning, Aug. %y, 1822. 
1 he following address is extracted from 
the National Intelligencer of the 20th 
April, in ciuding some recent amend¬ 
ments by the author. 
Gentlemen— 
I beg leave to offer, for a column of 
your Journal, what follows; in the hope it 
may not materially interfere with vour 
pressing avocations, arising from the'pre- 
’ sent session of Congress. 
Respectfully, 
JOHN CLEVES SYMMES. 
General Hequest to Learned In¬ 
stitutions. 
I respectfully desire the various Philo¬ 
sophical and Literary Societies through¬ 
out America and other quarters of the 
world, to do me the justice, or the favour 
to Publicly announce their dissent, provi- 
