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■ SYMMES’ THEORY. /2s:-. ? - , 
The public have some knowledge of the 
exertions which Captain Symmes, ihe pro¬ 
jector of the “theory of concentric spheres,' 
has been for some years making, to procure 
the fitting out of a polar exploring expedi 
tien, to lest its correctness; and somethin' 
lias also been said of the faithless and un- 
grateful manner in which lie lias been 1 rou¬ 
ted and deserted by his pupil and hired lec¬ 
turer, Mr. J N/ Reynolds. Whether his 
theory be correct or not, we have ever con¬ 
sidered the treatment of the Polar Philo¬ 
sopher, for such Captain Symmes may now 
be truly named, of the basest character. 
The expedition which Mr. Reynolds, after 
forsaking his patron, had labored to tit out, 
under governmental patronage to the South, 
and like Americus, rob capt. Symmes of the 
honor, and name of the discoveries, u anj 
valuable should be made, has, as his designs 
and conduct merited, failed the go\ em¬ 
inent have withdrawn their patronage. 
To call public attention again to tins 
subject, we insert a few reflections made 
sometime since, on lost leaning a little \o 
lume on “concentric spheres,'’ in which tie 
principal facts upon which “Symmes’ i he- 
oky” is founded, are given. The extreme 
ill health and general debility under which 
Capt Symmes is now, and long has ieen^ 
laboring, with hopes of a speedy recovery so 
little fluttering as to forbid the expectation 
that lie Will soon be able lumself to appeal 
before the public, is our principal mduce-j 
ment. . , 
The advocates of new theories, have in¬ 
numerable difficulties to encounter ; the lab¬ 
yrinths of the untrodden path which leads 
to their developement have not only to be 
explored, to establish their correctness m 
lho m i n d of their projector; but, the preju¬ 
dices, and ridicule, and preconceived opm- 
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