for spvo e su PP osltl011 °f fbe truth of ray theory, the sun, 
prohsKi a the summer season, would shine 
onenin yno ^ less than a thousand miles into the polar 
wonl 1 Ko aD ?. °, ver a .Potion of that surface, its rays 
sn i nfal ^ v f rtlc . a l, causing not only an iceless sea, but ab-r. 
so lately a tropical climate. 
v fi „ ? uld this theory be correct and there could be a 
• 1Ut -° P°’ ar sea > it might very readily sail 
.. ' ® la tenor of thfe earth. The only difference ia the 
^rm ot the ocean or lands there would bo that they 
wouia bo concave instead of convex, as. with us. The 
vessel, or any other object there, would be of less spe- 
ci c gravity from the fact that the portion of earth on 
, 0 °PP°site side of the cavity would exert a strong at¬ 
tracting power on them, thereby rendering them lighter 
than the same objects on the outer surface of the earth. 
Ann will not this theory, too, explain why it is that the 
terrestrial and magnetic poles do not correspond ? 
Now, Messrs. Editors, 1 am admonished to close my 
lucubrations tor the present, not knowing that they will 
ever be permitted to shine in your columns. If they are, 
and any one is disposed to call them visionary or insane, 
let them be prepared to give a better reason why, after 
passing over hundreds of miles of icebound ocean, Dr. 
Kane should come all at once upon an iceless sea abound¬ 
ing in animal life. 0. J. PHELPS. 
Piketon, (Ohio,) Oct. 22, 1855. 
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