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‘Fbe following playful notice of Capt. 
Symmes* Map of the Northen Verge, is 
copied from The Philadelphia Union of 
the 1st inst. 
By the last western mail, we received 
from Captain Symmes, a map or delinea 
tion ot the northern verge, impressed 
from a wooden block, carved with his pen¬ 
knife,—exhibiting at one view the whole 
region of Symmesonia, and marking the 
source of Sijmmes- River, “probably the 
largest river in the world, and which, it 
is presumable, discharges its waters by 
several mouths, one of which is conjec¬ 
tured to branch off from the main chan¬ 
nel to the right and enter at Ruffin’s Bay, 
and another to branch off from the left, 
and discharge near Nova Zembla.” 
Accompany ing this map, we have a long 
circular, treating of reflection and refrac¬ 
tion, circles, parallels, meridians, planes, 
concaves, convexea, &c. &c. &c. and tel¬ 
ling us how the earth is probably consti¬ 
tuted of five concentric spheres of solids, 
attended with numerous intermediate 
transparent aerial ones—how volcanoes 
are chimneys—how the native copper and 
iron found among the northern Indians, 
are, probably, the production of fire balls, 
which form and circulate between the 
spheres, until they ultimately condense 
to solids and fall—how the Great River 
should be entered in the autumn, by its 
principal mouth beyond Spitsbergen— 
hov/a steam boat is the kind of vessel 
best adapted to its navigation—how fuel 
tr.ust be abundant on its banks,both grow¬ 
ing trees and driftwood—how both ani¬ 
mals and vegetables are larger and more 
thrifty, as well as more various in kind 
within than without the sphere—how there 
is a great deal of rain within the concave 
