We p”? both citizens of the world, and 
in opin. 'ns at least closely related. Should 
it happe* in my day (and should you live) 
that the r. cessary, aid could he procured, 
fromany government, or power to tit out an 
exploring expedition,as you once proposed, 
l am determined to be one of the number. 
The works of my pencil, (I am a general 
draftsman) would hand my name to pos- 
teii'y, or the snows of the northern hem¬ 
isphere be my winding-sheet. 
Very respectfully, your friend, 
Cap.. Symmes . — — -—— 
n.d !0f )V2lj. 
SUMMARY OF POSITIONS. 
Messrs. Editors : I liold that, at mid-summer, the sun 
is 23 -5 degrees above the horizon, at the 90th degree,., 
and, consequently, then shines far into the concavity of ! 
s t nr b- gening, independent of refraction; that the 
Louth TtTt^e ismiles in diameter; that it lies North 
of Patagonia running there through a chain of acUve 
volcanoes, thence near the Cape of Good Hope, being 
nearest the Equator a little East of the meridian of Ma¬ 
dagascar,) thence to the northern boundary of Van 
Dieman’s Land, and thence between the two islands of 
New Zealand ; and that the North verge is aboutTp! or-i 
26^ miles in diameter ; that it runs through Mo girt He- ! 
cla, crossing Greenland near Cape Farewell, tnehce 
through Hudson’s Bay, crossing the Northwest coast be¬ 
tween lat. 52 and 53 degrees North, (being nearest the 
Equator about the meridian of Co de’s river thence 
tenting gradually more North along the extinguished i 
volcanoes of the Fox Islands, and through the volcanoes 
of Kamchatka, to about latitude 68 degrees, in Lapland 
or Norway. 
I also hold, that the magnetic Equator is higher North 
in Asia than it is South in the Pacific, as it should be to 
correspond, in relation to distance, with both verges, the 
South being the largest; that our natural climates are 
parallel to the verges ; that the high side of the verge is 
the coldest; that the extremity ot the verge, in any giv¬ 
en meridian, is the coldest point in the winter, and that 
the coldest region in summer is close under the umbrage | 
of the verge ; that in the concave polar regions, elec¬ 
tricity, or latent fluid heat, probably so pervades all liv¬ 
ing bodies, in winter, as to supersede the necessity of 
much atmospheric heat. [This may be owing, in some 
Way, to the concave surface being surcharged'with elec¬ 
tricity at the expense of the convex and vice versa so 
that when a winter is excessively cold on the one side 
it is mild in the same ratio on the other.] And, proba* 
bly, in the polar concave regions, electricity in winter is 
general ly-*-*edundant, and in summer vice versa that 
tire most direct course to the midway concave region is 
>o keep the course the needle points, throughout, ^ p ’ 
H V f ' traverse ; that the apparent verge lies u j ‘ ll 
W ,ere the needle settles at right ang.es with the m e} y 
