I Is the reader acquainted with the opinion and : 
j projects of captain Symmcs? lie maintains that 
1 the earth is hollow—that there is an entrance in- 
| to it at the north pole; and that it is inhabited. 
| In the above extract we probably find the source 
I from whence he has derived these' strange no- 
| lions, for he has resided many years in the vi- 
j cinity of the Indians, ,. v<< 
j Without supposing- that the Indian traditions , 
1 will add much weight in the public mind* to 
the opinions entertained by our new philoso- 
I nher; there is another fact which has lately 
come to light, which is well calculated to en- 
j courage Capt, Symmes to undertake an expr- 
dition for discovery, towards the North We 
allude to the new people found by Capt. Ross, 
in the discovery ships the last summer, in lati¬ 
tude 76° ; the very interesting account of which 
we have recently seen published in the Record. 
These people pointed to the North, as the place 
of their residence, and had come down for the 
purpose of fishing; they did not believe that 
Capt Ross came from the South, “ because,’ 
said they, “ it is a great mass of ice”—of course 
it follows that they must live in a country not 
a mass of ice, for they deem such an one unin¬ 
habitable—and that north of where they were 
found, the climate becomes milder and inhabi¬ 
table; besides, it is worthy of remark that they 
mentioned their country as having a great deal 
if water; not ice. These facts, highly impor¬ 
tant certainly, shew that far north of the regions 
which we have heretofore deemed inhabitable, 
where we have considered winter robed in snows 
trrd crowned by storms, to reign in the awful 
despotism of desolation, the climate undergoes t 
a favorable change, the cause of which it is not 
easy from known philosophical principles, to 
account for. 
Capt. Symnoes in one of his essays states, that 
north of any inhabited part of the country, it 
has been long observed that rein deer migrate ; 
thaK, after being a considerable time absent they 
return, sleek and fat; from which he infer:-', fair¬ 
ly too, that they must find a milder climate, 
fitted to rais° food for them, and consequently 
fitted for the habitation of man. The facts sta¬ 
ted by Capt. Ross, confirm his conclusion, and 
render it a matter very desirable that the expe¬ 
dition projected by Capt- bymmes should be 
undertaken. 
