dians, when Hudson’s Bay and N. W 
first discovered, and down to the present 
J. s * P rob »bJy,the production of fire-balls which 
fortn and circulate between the sphere’s until 
icy ultimately condense to solids and fall — 
Such I think is the mass of native copper and 
extraneous rock,lately seen byGov.Cas* andMr. 
Schoolcraft. I myself possess an extraneous 
rock ot this class containing 1 native iron & nic¬ 
kel, weighing 280 pounds; which I found on an 
alluvial formation in this neighborhood. At 
present, the Indians of the concave are, I con¬ 
clude, supplied with large quantities of our bar 
iron,furnished through successive links of com¬ 
merce from nation to nation, from the N. W. 
coast to the concave equatorial regions-, where 
it is doubtless manufactured and used. Hence 
it is, I conceive, that bar iron, in small pieces 
is now, and ever has been, since the trade on 
that coast was first discovered, one of the best 
articles that can be taken, to trade for fur. It 
is near Iceland where the mackare! and herring 
first appear; the former, if not both, it is cur¬ 
rently believed by intelligent fishermen,rise up 
there from the depths of the sea. It is my be¬ 
lief that they do thus rise, at or near the true 
verge, and that they come from the great Mid- 
plain space which I describe as necessarily ex¬ 
isting between the inner and outer surfaces or 
crusts of the sphere. If they do not come from 
thence, from whence do they come? By Indian 
information it would appear that there are 
no other seas but narrow straits to produce 
them, beyond the apparent verge; at least as 
far as the inner tropical regions; and some 
facts indicate much farther,* and if they do 
come from the concave, why are they never 
seen far north of Iceland? The seals come >nd 
go twice annually; whence come they? Hum¬ 
boldt says a volcano in South America vomited 
water and fish.f 9, 9, 9, Greenland,—10 Baf¬ 
fin’s Bay,—11 Labrador,—12 Hudson’s Bay,— 
1.3 Fort Churchill. It is from this fort that 
Hearne commenced his journey, fifty years 
*Some Indians informed Hearne that they occa¬ 
sionally travelled west and south to a country of no 
winter and no frost,—'consequently they must have 
been as tar as the inner tropical regions,—and they 
said they could hear of no sea. 
t If it he a fact that the migrating fish are produced 
in the great Mid-plane-space, how admirable is the 
providence of the Creator in this particular: how far 
beyond our former conception of it is his wisdom in 
perfecting our globe, and his beneficence in affording 
us this portion of our subsistence ; and how humble 
should man be. seeing that for a numerous succession 
of ages a considerable portion of the human family 
has been bountifully and luxuriously fed, without a 
single person being yet able to tell with any great de¬ 
gree of certainty whence supplied ; or even hereto¬ 
fore, believing that a 3pace, below, afforded such an 
abundance oftood to man and subserved the pleas¬ 
ures of life to myriads ot creatures, liuks m the great 
chain of animal creation. 
