the proprietor of a goose egg con- - 
uung another egg-. These are still in mv ' 
caller 10 ”: r,le e S£* y° u kn °w, been i 
. a microcosm, or “ little world,” and I 
not without reason. f 
^ fear I am troublesome to you. Yet T 
could not forbear to state a few examples 
in watch nature forms hollow spheres, 
cylinders and ovals, instead of solid ones 
A leading object, or, as the philosophers 
term it, a final cause, seems to be econo¬ 
mising material, or saving the stuff: and 
} our planet is a spheroid of solid gran¬ 
ite, gneis, loadstone, or any other mineral 
compoi nd, the internal or central parts 
vould appear, at least to a superficial 
° S £ IV p' lke n ] yselfj a £ reat waste of 
«tuit. Go on, and prosper! so writes your 
wellwisher. SAML. L. MITCHILL 
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 9, ISIS. 
r B y r «J rrin & 1 } o fourth page of this paper, 
the reader will perceive, in the letter of Dr 
Mil chill to Cap t. Si/mmea, how an ingenious man 
can worm himself out of a hobble. The Doctor 
V as fairly m for the New Theory; but, having- 
got to the verge of the polar . openings, was 
afraid, it seems, to venture in. He has, how¬ 
ever, brought back with him a considerable 
mmoer of discoveries in favor of its probability. 
Eiratum.- —In the ninth paragraph of 
Dr. Mitchell’s letter, beginning of the4th 
line, for “ large circles,” read lavers op 
circles.. 
