\ un, [ ? en.ierprize, something that 
j'.iail keep national spirit awake ? Will 
not our Agriculturalists, our Merchants 
anu Mechanics, join hand in hand in cal¬ 
ling loudly for an expedition worthy the 
nation, and worthy the occasion ? 
Respectfully, 
JNO. CLE'VES SYMMES. 
Newport, Nov. 6, 1822, 
*If it be doubted whether a sufficiency of 
ruel could be carried to answer until wood 
could be found, steam or sail tenders mi»h» 
.. 10 use as a der; 
resort It is a pretty clear point that there 
be no floating ice to be encountered in win 
as what remains in autumn will unite to om 
one or 
the other shore. 
J. C. S. 
7 
Newport, Ky. July 29th, 1822. 
To the Editors of the public journals 
throughout the United States . 
JOHN CLEVES SYMMES, having for sever¬ 
al years past been engaged in contemplating 
and discussing the physiology of our planet;* — 
and having satisfied Ins own mind, and the minds 
of many enlightened characters, that it is com¬ 
posed of an outer and interior world or worlds, 
open at both poles;—-he is, still, as heretofore, 
anxious to demonstrate at all hazards, the truth 
and necessity of his Theory, by personally ex¬ 
ploring the new world of the Concave, by way 
of either of the polar openings. Such an at¬ 
tempt, he flatters himself, would not only result 
in the never-fading fame of our rising nation, 
but add, at the same time, tp t fie general stock 
I of useful knowledge, and diffuse incalculable 
benefits on the land of his nativity, and on the 
world at large. 
lie is not unaware that his position may pro¬ 
bably, for some time yet to come, continue to 
be, as they have heretofore been, treated by 
the many (a majority of whom have, perhaps, 
ftot examined them) as the visionary schemes 
of an enthusiastic projector. '1 his was not, at 
first, exp ected by him but it has happened in 
hi 3 case, and—as human nature is constituted— 
the like must of en happen, in a greater or less 
degree, < such new suggestions as present a 
boldness of feature, calculated, as it were, to 
degree 
take men by surprise. All ether considerations 
