feet mhisense j navigators have gone to 
eighty-tw o and upwards, north latitude ; 
now when the sun is in the tropics, veiy 
few rays would fall upon the aperture; 
but these few would not be reflected, to 
either pole. The angles of incidence and 
reflection are always equal on a plane sur¬ 
face—but, as the Aurora Borealis, hap¬ 
pens generally to be brightest in Novem¬ 
ber and February, when the sun would 
not perhaps cast a single ray into the ca¬ 
vity—this hypothesis falls to the ground. 
If (his be the case, the inside or hollow of 
the earth cannot be any thing but dark¬ 
ness three-fourths of the year; and may 
be aptly compared to the brain that first 
suggested the idea of a cavity in its cen¬ 
tre. In the outset, I said the opinions 
advanced in the essay, were atheistical;! 
they are atheistical in this way: they ac- 
acount for the formation of our earth, as 
it is at present, by the revolution of it on 
its axis. Nothing, however, is said about 
the origin of this rotary motion. This 
implies that matter generated it; and this 
denies it creation—besides, if its motion 
gave its present shape, how can it con¬ 
tinue so—would not the same motion con¬ 
tinue to alter it to that of a cylinder. But 
enough of this, it is too absurd a thing to 
be pursued any farther. GALILEO. 
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■FOR THE Ci:mi?TI?ATI GAZETTE. 
Messrs. Editors, 
By an essay entitled miscellany, in the 
last Western Spy, from the pen of that 
! modern philosopher,Captain John Cleves 
Syimnes, it appears that he has in reserve 
for the press, proofs and indications suf¬ 
ficient to establish twenty-two new posi¬ 
tions or theories, in addition to those al¬ 
ready promulgated. This information I 
apprehend will be rather appalling to the 
great mass ot readers, inasmuch as man¬ 
kind have no great fondness for Lino- 
posed subject infinitely beyond 
their compre lension. If the captain j s 
