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been ilnr ? T ?7 ’'—^ our roa{ ^rs must 
'^bted and highlyedified by your 
,/ c . 111 ? from the Cincinnati Gazette 
. note upon the Weather, by that inge¬ 
nious speculatist John Cleves Symons, 
showing that r/ze rise and fall of the Ohio 
River may very probably depend upon the 
seasons which prevail close under the um¬ 
brage of the north polar verge, near the 
polar opening; and that the thaw usually 
occurring in New England about January 
or February, may somehow be connected 
with the summer, which is proved (so ful¬ 
ly to my satisfaction) to prevail wi thin 
the said verge during these months. 
I was much gratified by the publication 
of the Jirctic Memoir of Captain Symmes, 
because it demonstrated the truth of a 
Jewish tradition, that God, in forming the 
earth, had left a large opening in the 
northern regions, saying, that if any one 
should ever attempt to pass himself oft’for 
a God, he might be required to finish the 
work and to close up the opening. It is 
pleasing to witness the discoveries of mo¬ 
dern days verifying the traditions of an¬ 
tiquity. 
I am nevertheless a little puzzled how 
to reconcile the theory of concentric 
spheres with a fact which is communica¬ 
ted to us in the works of the learned Rab¬ 
bi Abrabauel, viz: that, as all the Jews are 
to be in Palestine at the day of resurrec¬ 
tion, the bodies of all such as die out of 
that country, will be transported thither 
through subterranean canals, dug for the 
purpose by the Creator. Now, as it is as¬ 
certained that that nation, since the dis- j 
persion, has inhabited every section of the 
known globe,and that their mortal remains 
have ot course been deposited in a great j 
variety oFsituations, it appears to me that* 
it would be hardly possible to pierce the 
j ernst of our exterior sphere by so many 
I canals as would be necessary for the a-, 
5"? P^pose, without endangering its 
falling in, (to the utter dismay of our in¬ 
ternal neighbors ) if it be as thin as repre¬ 
sented by these modern discoveries. I 
should beglald to be convinced, by such 
argument as I am sure are within’the pow¬ 
er of the author of the theory, that mv an- 
prehensions are groundless. 
NEoPijyte. 
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