*.«o* a ve»- 
borhood of Spitsbergen. Supp 0 * * f) reac h 
sei there- in the summer aeaso , ^ 
the 83d deg. before it came to * ^ 
then a man might travel on f , • + 0 
days to where the climate won t 
change and become more tempeia* 
The great probability is, that t 
sometimes a current ot an g 015 . 1 ^ r r a b e 
sometimes out of the polar opening. lal 
the. tide of air as it sets in for the great 
orifice and a balloon would add ease, 
safety, and facility to the mode of travel 
ling—and the same means would bnog 
you out. by a contrary tide ol air. Hj 1r - 
ien gas, sufficient for the purpose, could 
any where be obtained. . . 
If this hasty sketch, containing a small 
part of my reflections on the subject of 
your truly grand theory, can be of any 
service to your plan, you are at liberty to 
make what use of it you think proper. 
Wishing you every success m an un 
dertaking so vitally interesting to science, 
and to the human family at large, 
I remain, with respect and esteem, 
Your very hiunbl^ servmlt, ^^^^ 
Capt. Synunes, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
The following remark, was furnished me b>^a 
friend, (who is a member of the American 
Philosophical Society) With liberty to use i 
as 1 might choose As ft corresponds with®/ 
ideas m a superior style, I cannot api - 
better, than by laying it bef<£»^ ^ hc - 
JOHN CLEVES SYMMha. 
Reading-room, Feb. 5, 1819 
Animation and diversity appear to have 
been the principal aims or the gi -at aut o 
of creation. The air we breathe, the wa¬ 
iter we drink, the vegetables on Which we 
i feed, indeed every leaf and piant of the 
forest and* field—all, all teem with animal 
life. Why, then, should we suppose, oi ,i , 
ther fireeume to think, that the Almig i y i 
Fiat which gave existence to matter, tor, 
ne support and maintenance of creatures . 
innumunblc, and endless in the variety of; 
T-.eir configuration,their colours, passions, 
land pursuits—why, 1 say, should we p^j 
t sumo, that any, even the smallest particle 
