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To the Editors of the Nation a' Intelligencer. 
Gentlemen. —This letter is intended 
for any person or persons who may be 
pleased to receive it as addressed to him 
or them. 
Newark, Ohio, April 1 7• 
I have journeyed here, and am too sick 
to travel homeward or onward, and am 
without sufficient funds to pay my way 
much longer, and none at home to draw 
for. 0! that some of the citizens of our 
metropolis would subscribe, and authorize 
me to draw for, what would keep the dis¬ 
coverer of new worlds from the cramp of 
want and depression ; but for lack of finan¬ 
ces I should long since personally explain¬ 
ed my principles at Washington and other 
Atlantic cities. I say, new worlds, for 
besides the Concave, l prove that both sur¬ 
faces in the Mid-plane-space are inhabited 
by animals; also, the adjoining sphere 
above and below us. 
I prove that the herring, and other mi¬ 
grating fish of Europe inhabit the Convex, 
and the herring, &c. of the east coast of 
North America, the concave surface in the 
Mid-plane-space, and that the martin fam¬ 
ily inhabit the concave of the sphere over 
our heads, and the peculiar water fowl, of 
Hudson’s Bay, and other parts of borders 
of the concave of our sphere (seen on this 
sphere * only in summer) inhabit the con¬ 
vex of the neighboring sphere within: those 
water fowl go naked whilst here, and the 
martin do the same whilst away, as is prov¬ 
ed by caging them all winter. 
I have an essay written, specifying par¬ 
ticular proofs of these positions ; but,under 
present circumstances, it is likely to linger 
long on hand in an uncorrected state. Re¬ 
spectfully 
JOHN CLEVES SYMMES. 
*See Hearne’s Journey. Hearne saw 
no martins far beyond where I mark the 
real ver°-e ; nor could any of the Indians 
he ever saw tell where *ome species of the 
produced no 
