Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Symmes’ Theory. [ARTICLE]

Symmes’ Theory.

Capt. Americus Symmes, the advocate of the theory that a navigable cavity extends through the earth from pole to pole, has contributed SSOO toward the Howgate Arctic expedition. Symmes says that all the results of the previous expeditions justify his belief, and he is confident that Howgate will be able to enter the cavity. In a letter to the Louisville Courier-Journal he says : “Did not Capt. Waddle go upon a south exploring expedition a few years ago, and found an open Polar sea, as in the north, and, when entering it found his compass had reversed its position, and was pointing north when he thought he was going southward, and became alarmed and turned back, when, if he had followed on as his compass directed, he would have come out at the North pole, and would have proved the theory true, which says the earth is hollow, and, no doubt, habitable within.