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I-aT Some of our readers may r«iember th^ a 
lovel theory of the struc ‘^ ° ne c“apt. Symmeb, t 
rtopoundedsomeyearsago y ^ inthU ; 
mdthat it was explmned and . noldSi ^ |- 
City and elsewhere by JoHNl . „ t politician 
who afterwards became P w that the re 
a,,d 'ZZX inTh: earth^at each pole, and 
was an opemvg' throu „ U it into the mteri- 
coul»ssthe harrier 
wish Hole, and the designa- 
^ was f ,e generally app^dtotjmmventor 
tends that it has been confirmed ] 
^vrire accounts of the Arctic exploring expedr- 
• y ,1 that Sir JohnFeanklin has probably 
.ions, and that Mr johi* tpS 
rot into the hole and can’t get mt ! He^ quotes 
this statement from the accounts of Capt. Pen 
N y’s expedition : 0 f ice in Welling- 
“ Capt. Penny found aheay Opening from Barrow’s 
ton Channel, not very far fromi its i ope b observed as 
Straits, but a remMUch^ « g ^ 
he passed to a more ■ ar i y season, April and May,) 
had Missis usual and unsafe, and at last 
firm and solid, ua water, drift wood, Arctic ani- 
J ravelers came upon open water mre 
Zfe cUm °fL. 
He makes the following cmnment^^ ^ ^ ^ 
“ 1 do not know how it wi^.stnl pole8 has been 
with whom the 1 oa vears the information commum- 
familiar for some tturty y . . curious. Perhaps, 
cated by Capt. Penni is tWs opening ! It 
after all, Sir John P it 1S ( mita probable that the 
there be such an opening, h 1 m prevent re¬ 
strength of the current m o wou pj no t, however, be an 
turn to sailing vessels • How important then 
obstacle to the returnof steamer ^ effor ts to obtain 
it becomes that Capt. jenny v waler „ anUtll e“un- 
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