feet that our atmosphere win naturally j )a 
upon it, 1 have no doubt, from what I h ave l\ 
ready observed of tne effects of motion, tlr<' 
the rivers and valleys may be filled withal, 
from the inside, the ocean filled, the regt-C 
oceanic currents formed, the water flcwiV^from 
the inside to the out through the perforation* 
trom the outside to the inside through the poles’ 
and the whole phenomena explained i n abatis' 
actory manner, so that the whole process mn* 
f )e 9 f. cn in miniature with the eye; the polar at¬ 
traction ot the needle explained and the varia¬ 
tion of it accounted for. 
. 1 by placing 1 the north end of tfie Globe 
m a dark place, and having a bright ligftt pla¬ 
ced in the position that the sun'bears to this 
earth in a south latitude, the rays of Ihdit are 
nrown m at the south pole, and reflected at 
b^m. angles, and pass out at the north pole in a 
manner perfectly calculated to explain the au- 
ora borealis, and show it in a most beautiful 
manner, and shows that the inside or hollow of 
u»e earth, may be as well or better lighted and 
'vanned hy the sun than the outside. From 
these experiments I am fully convinced of 
bymrnes’s theory, and that the earth would be 
incomplete without the hollow. 
Capt- Sranrr.s remarks, that ail the facts ex¬ 
plained hy means of the above described wood¬ 
en globe are such as might have been calcula¬ 
ted on with a great degree of certainty, with¬ 
out experiments, by well considering the quali¬ 
ties and laws of gravity and the centrifugal 
force of rotation; which laws he conceives (al¬ 
though he has tried no similar experiments') 
will forbid all liquids, which escape from with¬ 
in the wooden globe either through the propo¬ 
sed appertures or through the polar openings, 
from returning within again, unless one axis be 
depressed lower than the other; as the. earth’s 
axis is depressed alternately and semi-annually, 
in relation to the sun. In the case of such a de¬ 
pression, however, he conceives, the monsoon 
and oceanic currents of air and water might be. 
| pretty well evidenced by the rotation of the 
, wooden globe; yet, unless the shores of the 
continents be cut very deep and steep, and the 
. globe turned only moderately on its axis, the 
t water will not only fly towards the equator, in 
such a degree as to leave the bed of the ocean 
about the upper pole bare of water, but under 
the existing circumstances of our atmosphere 
and gravity (the latter of which is so much 
greater relatively to the wooden globe than the 
gravity of the sun can he in relation to the earth) 
it will be projected along up the shores, valleys, 
and mountains, of the tropical regions of the 
bail to their extremities. 
J. C. Symfnes thinks-the writer of the letter, 
Mr. Thomas i uHs—infilled to much credit for 
his declaration in favor of "‘the new theory.” 
U> s coming forward as lie lias, will encourage 
others to investigate and declare in its favor, 
who were before prevented either hv doubt or 
therak of beinRT ri 'Vc«Te« 1 as visionaries. 
f mcinnati, Aug. 28, ig lg 
