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Relation d’un voyage du pole artique au pole antarctique
Remarkable Events and Remarkable Shipwrecks (Thomas)
Remarks on a Review of Symmes’ Theory (Reynolds)
Republic (Plato)
Restoration
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Rose Lawn Home Journal
Rosicrucian Society
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Symmes, Celadon
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Symzonia written by
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Symmes, Timothy
“Symmes Hole, Or the South Polar Romance” (Nelson)
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/>
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Wandering Jew
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Watson, Dr.
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Weddell, James
Welcome, S. Byron
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Wells, H.G.
Wells, M. L.
Wesleyan College
Western Druggist
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“What Curiosity in the Structure: The Hollow Earth in Science” (Griffin)
When the Sleeper Wakes (Wells)
Whigs
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Whitman, Sarah Ellen, portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by
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Wilkenson, James
William III (king of England)
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (Baum)
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World College of Life
World War I
Wren, Christopher
X-Files, The
Zola, Emile
1
Quoted in Alan Cook’s Edmond Halley (Oxford 1998). Note reads: First Minute Book: Oldenburg to Richard Norwood, 6 March 1664, Oldenburg Corresp, Vol. 2, p. 146.
2
From the Spark Museum website at www.sparkmuseum.com/RADIOS.HTM.
3
See the chapter “The Reverend Thomas’ Dirty Little Planet” in Stephen Jay Gould’s Ever Since Darwin (1979).
4
As reprinted in James McBride’s Pioneer Biography: Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Early Settlers of Butler County, Ohio, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co., 1859–1861).
5
This is from a long marginal note by Symmes in a copy of Symmes’s Theory of Concentric Circles, written by his friend, James McBride, and published as “By A Citizen of the United States” (Cincinnati: Morgan, Lodge and Fisher, 1826).
6
A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers (Cincinnati, Ohio: Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882).
7
The book was published anonymously, as written by “A Citizen of the United States,” but it’s generally recognized that McBride was the author. Born in Pennsylvania in 1788, McBride migrated to the “Symmes Purchase” at age eighteen, where he made enough money as a merchant to become a historian of the Miami country’s early white settlement and accumulated arguably the most extensive library in the area—of which, presumably, Symmes generously availed himself. It has been suggested by one writer, in fact, that McBride was the brains behind Symmes’s hollow earth theory, directing his reading and thinking, and, puppetmaster-like, putting Symmes out there as the front man for it. But this seems unlikely.
8
For this and other questionable hollow earth information, the UnMuseum’s address is http://www.unmuseum.org/hollow.htm.
9
“What Curiosity in the Structure: The Hollow Earth in Science” by Duane Griffin is an excellent, short historical paper surveying scientific thinking about the hollow earth, down to the present. Quite readable though aimed for an academic audience. It is available online at www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/dgriffin/Research/Griffin-HE_in_Science.pdf.
10
http://www.professorfringe.com/he.htm.
11
Sir John Ross, whose second arctic expedition (1829–33) in search of the Northwest Passage discovered and surveyed Boothia Peninsula and King William Island in Canada’s Northwest Territories. His nephew, James Clark Ross, part of the expedition, located the north magnetic pole.
12
Mercator wrote in a letter to John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s astrologer: “In the midst of the four countries is a Whirlpool into which there empty these four Indrawing Seas which divide the North. And the water rushes round and descends into the earth just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. It is 4 degrees wide on every side of the Pole, that is to say eight degrees altogther. Except that right under the Pole there lies a bare rock in the midst of the Sea. Its circumference is almost 33 French miles, and it is all of magnetic stone. And is as high as the clouds, so the Priest said, [and] one can see all round it from the Sea, and that it is black and glistening.”
13
McBride in The Theory of Concentric Spheres: “Hearne, who travelled very high north and northwest on the continent of America, details various facts in his journal, which strongly corroborate Symmes’s position … he states that large droves of musk-oxen abound within the arctic circle … white or arctic foxes are, some years, remarkably plentiful, and always come from the north… .We should conclude that the internal region of the earth is as much more favourable to the support of animal life, as the rein-deer is larger than our deer, and the white bear larger than our bear …”
14
McBride enlists the aid of the book half a dozen times, saying of it, “there is an extensive collection of instances cited, where navigators have reached high northern latitudes…. It is almost uniformly stated, that in those high latitudes, the sea is clear of ice, or nearly so, and the weather moderate.”
15
Arguing Symmes’ case for greater refraction of light in polar regions, McBride quotes Mackenzie in a footnote as stating “‘that sometimes the land looms, so that there may be a great deception in the distances.’ —Mackenzie’s Voyage, p.11, New York, 1802.”
16
This story appears in A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic by Charlies Officer and Jake Page (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
17
In fact most martins winter in South America, from southeastern Brazil as far west as Colombia.
18
Today 95% of the world’s southern fur seals—upwards of a million—jam South Georgia in summer, along with half the southern elephant seals, a quarter-million albatrosses, and penguins numbering in the millions.
19
As Walker Chapman writes in The Loneliest Continent: “Sealing was a brutal, cold-blooded operation, and the men who manned the ships were the toughest to go to sea since the days of the Elizabethan buccaneers. Sailing in ice-filled seas, gliding between uncharted rocks hidden by mist and snow, they made their landings on lonely, barren islands where thousands of friendly, harmless seals had come to mate. The seals offered no defense as the sealers went among them, clubbing them to death. The men worked caked with grease, wading in rivers of blood. It was cruel work, and attracted cruel men… . Island after island was stripped of its seals. One sealing vessel alone ki
lled 100,000 seals in five years.”
20
A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers (Cincinnati, Ohio: Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882). This book is available online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/.
21
Quoted without naming the source in “Symmes and His Theory,” by E. F. Madden, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. October, 1882: 740–744.
22
The best account of this partnership is found in William Stanton’s 1975 The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, to which I am indebted for the details here.
23
It must have been pretty profitable to him. His first solo lectures in Philadelphia, according to a notice in The Democratic Press, drew “an auditory of from thirteen to fifteen hundred…. The lecture was intended and well calculated to remove prejudice against the theory of Capt. Symmes.”
24
Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio (Columbus, Ohio: The State of Ohio, 1891), 1:430–432.
25
As related in Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by Hervey Allen (1926).
26
This sketch of Reynolds is quoted in The History of Clinton County Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers and Company, 1882), 580–585.
27
Reynolds finds no metaphysics lurking in his story of the white whale, and, at the end of his tale, it’s killed. Melville probably read the story as a young sailor aboard the Acushnet. In 1847, Melville bought a copy of Reynolds’ Voyage of the United States Frigate Potomac.
28
Nathaniel Hawthorne, then thirty-four years old, whose Twice-Told Tales had been published in 1837, had also applied for the job as Corresponding Secretary, seeking “a way out of despondency,” as Robert Almy puts it, adding, “His friend Franklin Pierce advised negotiating through Reynolds, and himself talked with and wrote Reynolds in Hawthorne’s behalf.” But nothing came of it, and in 1839 Hawthorne took a position in the Boston Custom House instead.
29
Others he liberally pilfered from were Benjamin Morrell’s A Narrative of Four Voyages ( J. & J. Harper, New York, 1832); The Mariner’s Chronicle (stories of true sailing disasters originally published from 1804 to 1812, reprinted as a collection by George W. Gorton, New Haven, 1834); and R. Thomas’s Remarkable Events and Remarkable Shipwrecks (New York, 1836). Behind on getting material to his publisher, Poe resorted to using these as a bit of Novel Helper.
30
This account is related in Hervey Allen’s landmark 1926 biography, Israfel.
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