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SYMMES' PAMPHLET. 
As the subcriptions for the Lecture which I 
proposed to publish (with an appends) have 
been mostly obtained in the City of Cincinnati, 
and were procured either by my own personal 
application, or by the application of a mer¬ 
cer sent by me,—t cannot tell certainly, whe 
ther they were given, merely to encourage me, 
as a former soldier of the district, to whom so 
small a request could not well be refused; or 
through a real desire to read the lecture, and 
obtain a more particular knowledge of my 
views on the subject of open poles and concen¬ 
tric spheres. At any rate, as it has been pub¬ 
licly delivered, in the hall of the Western Mu¬ 
seum, to a crowded audience, and as many o 
the arguments it contains, have long been ex¬ 
hibited both in the Reading Room and Gazettes 
of the city, I trust that my friends will readily 
excuse the further delay of its appearance. As 
to the encouragement received from elsewhere 
throughout the United States, it has been too 
little to produce excitement; having received 
little or no countenance, from any of our gov¬ 
ernments, or from any of the learned societies 
or schools, or any of their members, with a ve¬ 
ry few exceptions, (some of which I design to 
name on some other day) and having received 
very little respectful notice from either news¬ 
paper editors or other journalists—a few of 
the more liberal ones excepted. Under such 
circumstances, I expect my friends will rather 
commend than blame the delay already incur¬ 
red; as well as the further and indefinite post¬ 
ponement of the publication. I, at all events, 
defer it, until I perceive a more earnest desire 
for it than now appears to exist, or until there 
is a prospect of the pamphlet paying tolerably 
promptly for the expense and trouble of print¬ 
ing and selling it, or, at least, until I can find 
disposable time and funds, (which I hope may 
ere very long be the case,) to publish it on a 
comprehensive scale, suitable for a wide and 
permanent circulation; until when, I shall pro¬ 
bably continue to publish occasional essays on 
the subject in the newspapers. 
JNO. CLEYES SYMMES. 
Cincinnati Reading Room, Dec. 16, 1820.. 
NOTE.—Since writing the above notice I 
have received an invitation through a commit¬ 
tee from the Philoraathian Society of New¬ 
port, to deliver before them, and the citizens 
generally, a Lecture: with which invitation I 
purpose to comply (on a day yet to be named) 
sometime in the ensuing month. J “ 
Dec. 20,1820. 
