Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — Hidden City in the Arctic Seas. [ARTICLE]

Hidden City in the Arctic Seas.

The story of the hidden city revealed to the world by a mirage seen over the Muir glacier In Alaska has once more been started, says the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Several alleged observers have seen this alleged mirage, the most favored of them being an alleged John M. White, of Philadelphia, who on June 21, "some years ago,” was able to study It for nine hours, from 11:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m., through a powerful glass. Mr. White is quite certain he didn’t dream this mirage because he has since seen photographs of it, taken by other people. The photographs do not look in the least like the mirage Mr. White saw, but that Is Immaterial to his argument, which is that the mirage couldn’t very well have been photographed unless the mirage were visible; that Jf the mirage were visible there Is no reason why he, Mr. White, should not have seen it if he were at the Muir glacier at the proper time of year; that having, Indisputably, been at the Muir glacier at the proper time of year he is decidedly Inclined to believe that he Is not mistaken In his recollection that he saw the mirage. Mr. White's theory is that there Is a flourishing open metropolis situated somewhere near the north pole on the shores of the open polar sea, and that when the mm “Is at Its highest northern point, os It Is June 21, the mirage of the arctic oapltal Is reflected to the point where it tumeara over the Muir glacier."