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SYMMES’S THEO» ^ ha: 
The friendly reception tm* citize ns 
lately met, by niany ^ fn . oU nd to 
of the west, gives pooz o qji wUl be 
believe, that a Ube ,^ 1 ‘/he worthy author, 
manifested, m enab. "S ^ to the city <?• 
of it » pay a ^ SUed to the wn 
Washington. > t contemplates 
ter, that in a few days, 
on to was*. . To what 
Should his situation adnutef ^ 
more n(J ^ c in aiding* this worthy 
cd contribute, - “ ‘ 0 g t no b]e enter- 
veteran toproseciuot - : • ent has 
nr Ve The discovery ot a com 
1’ot only immortalizedthe^nam^ «- goV; 
Iambus, but has °P CllU . { w pj he real- 
Ue.«ao^^ e rtho 
ter extend us t™\ . might not be 
0l '^ f^he^S— of a region, 
the effect of the cx l human race an 
w! ,ieh ^ sn, »<"•«• °« 
intercoms? w,t' “• r vcr y contend- 
the score of fame, 
e<t for hy the 
, ., tj. tArrtvp to be tiue, t ‘- 5 
ofv'i ■ ' : mu$c men on the matter, strong¬ 
ly indicates^ he will stand unnvaued 1 he. 
ylorr of Columbus, in compar.s„n to tuat 
which must attach to Symmes, wid oe as. 
the twinkling- of a star to the brilliancy of, 
the great luminary of day. Io have pro¬ 
duced a man, whose strength of genius; 
alone, led him to the knowledge of , 
such a fact by the abstract exercu c oi 
philosophical science, without a hint from 
any previous idea entertained oy man, 
will ?j;ive to America a subject ci pi ids, 
and an eminence of native product, to 
which all the boasting literati of Europe 
can never substantiate her claim. Nay, 
the very fact that captain Symmes has 
brought forward such a theory, and so far 
substantiated it by numerous circumstan¬ 
ces which are universally admitted to ex¬ 
ist, and that not a single individual amongst 
the learned has yet found himself master 
)i' the means to show its absurdity , ent-i- 
;ies him to the respect, and his theory to 
:he attention of every rational man. Should 
:aptain Symmes be called from time lea- 
