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It is well known to (he public, that Captuin 
Syipncs, a philosopher who resides in the state 
Obto. by some fortunate exercise of his-e 
urns and learning-, has discovered that the earth 
Wiiicii we inhabit is hollow; that there are o- 
pemngs at the poles throng'll which a passage to 
u,e insAde mifflit be obtained, and that the dis¬ 
coverer himself lias it in contemplation to make 
a lri P» one of these odd times, through the Treat 
central cavity. Within a short time past,° the 
following' letter lias been published in one of the 
newspapers in this city, and appears to be from 
a philosopher in the western part of this state, 
to one residing in this city, in which we not on¬ 
ly find Symmes’s theory confirmed, but an ac¬ 
count given of tiie very manner in which this 
great hole through the globe was made. The 
process seems to have been a plain and simple 
one. Mr. Tubs appears to consider the earth 
to be a kind of large barrel churn—the interior 
of which, we presume, must have been full of 
chaos, and the earth being set in motion, that is, 
f whirling-round on ita own axis, as the churn 
j does on its crank, by and by when the butter 
came it stuck round upon the staves of the churn, 
forming a sort of under-crust, leaving a hollow 
Space within where there was nothing remaining 
except the liquid, otherwise called butter-milk. 
In order to account for the existence of water, 
that is oceans, and rivers, and lakes, upon the 
outside of the globe, the writer resorts to an ex¬ 
planation equally simple and familiar—he says 
he Had observed “ that a regular motion given 
to a grindstone, that was hung perfectly true, 
would retain water upon the top of the stone, 
without throwing it oik”—and therefore, as the 
world is round, and turns faster than any grind¬ 
stone, the waters, once upon the outside, and 
not having time to run off, keep their places up¬ 
on the surface. We do not exactly see through 
this grindstone. In all cases that we have wit¬ 
nessed, the water that sticks to the surface of a 
grindstone, as it goes round, is supplied from a 
trough below, from which the stone, passing ra¬ 
pidly through, carries a small quantity, which, 
not having time toMall off, goes round again, 
and is discharged into t-e trough from whence 
it came. Now, if there was nothing but a 
streak of water about the middle of the globe, 
which might be. supposed to come from some 
mighty trough underneath, there would be some 
plausibility in this tueory. But, we have some 
water and some land, some mountains ana some 
values; and, fast as the world got s round, we 
find that water will still run down hill when it 
gets a chance. 
