SYMMES’ THEOb/; 
IN-CIU. E , E s EEEAT.VE TO THE NATURAE HI8 
1 OUV OF THE EARTH. 
As those Magellanic clouds of the Southern 
hemisphere, which are seen iron, the Senlh At 
hmti'. ami Irani the southeast parts of the l> ac jfi~ 
Ocea.t (reverse iaoni New Holla, „! and jA 
{" aie llot v isible Iron, the east part of the 
Indian Ocean ; ami as they, without revolving 
correspond both in relative position ami in 
t.v-e proportion ami also their respective At ! 
nd outlu.es w,t„ the south half, or three r«urthl 
ot .sew Aetna, id, a section of the S. S.E. part of! 
, w . 11 ; ,1 , lan(J . ant "*e whole of Van DieinanV ! 
i.a.T,, (.the strongly marked gulf or imKmta ion 1 
m tne coast ot the most southwardly., or south- l 
eastward|y, part of New Holland. )U bt- ! 
■ ess visible on die underside of that one of the 1 
two larger clouds, which should, according to the , 
suggestion here maintained, be constituted by a 
.-oinui portion of N. Holland,)—does.it notthere- 
p JrC *^^° W ’ *^ at ’ Scoresby’s ship, which, m 
iiidlin’s bay, was seen,by means of great refraction, 
apparently in the heavens, that these lands are. in 
a somewhat similar manner, seen as if they were 
in toe sky: 1 It is doubtless out of our visual 
power to discover that bent rays of vision are 
crooked ; hence, we necessarily suppose an ob¬ 
ject, seen bymeans of bent rays, to be situated 
where in reality it vs not. 
As Symmes’ map of the northern verge, pub¬ 
lished in Sept. 18221, places North America on 
one side ot the sloped verge, or sloped polar 
opening,! and Asia on the opposite side slope, 
and as his marked meridians run, more or less 
-directly, along up the edge of either slope ot the 
apparent verge, towards a position on, or rather 
under, the highest side of the opening, which 
highest side he marks to the northward o( Ku- 
tope, and which position, being the 90th degree, - 
he marks on the apparent verge ; it follows, it 
his conclusions are founded in truth, that the 
most direct course outwards, from the innermost 
1’ogion of the concave, towards and over the 
north ver^e must be more or less northeastward¬ 
ly, by theV’n in America, and northwestwardly 
'ii Asia, n il! it not therefore' also follow that the 
yiu-ETt-AL curb**™ vvh.ch 1 any am tranklm 
described in the '<" th " ,ea ol A “ c '*’ as P re ‘ 
