The Port-Gibson Correspondent, and Mississippi General Advertiser, July 02, 1831.
Symmes’s Ghost. — The doctrine of John Cleves Synnes, that the Earth is hollow in not expolded. The Portsmouth Journal states that it yet lives and improves, in the essays of a correspondent of the Gardiner (Me.) Intelligencer. According to the improved theory, the interior is not only inhabitable, but inhabited 00 and, then, as the Polar Ice and White Bears make the entrance somewhat hazardous. he has resource to a miracle in order to get the people in, and another to get them out — Balt. Gaz
This discovery (adds the Journal) is happy, on more than one account: for while it disposes of the earth’s centre in a most pleasant manner, it brings to light the long lost “Ten Tribes” (not of the “Jews” as the author of the essays will have it, but) of Israels’ which Tribes, he gravely and soberly locates inside the aforesaid shell of the earth– building his fabric on a text in the Apocryphal Book of Esdras, which he supposes to mean, that these tribes entered the bed of the rivers Gazon and Euphrates, the waters of which dried up that fhey passed on though the sea on dry land, towards the south pole, and finally reached the inside where their posterity now live, and from whence, at a future time, they will return, like a miraculous manner, to take possession of the land of their fathers.
Now lest the reader should laugh at all this, the author anticipates him, and admonishes us all not to think him insane, and then knocks un on the head with an unanswerable question to this purpose “If the Ten Tribes be not there–then, where are they.”