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Professor Revives Old Theory of En trance at Poles. Under New York City, a few thou sand miles, more ortless, there's a land where there are no Rocekfellers, no railroad rebate questions and no base ball tail-enders, according to Dr. Or ville ‘Livingston Leach, scientist and investigator. To get to this place, which is a land of great beauty, you have but to sail to one or the other of the poles, and quite without know ing it your ship may go into an open ing as if into a gaslight globe and come upon _@ convex land. Once ‘there that ‘you'll ‘never, come back, So ‘doesn’t say much? about Arctic ‘explorers who have never’ re turned from the land of ice, mayhap, are now sailing around in the sea that lines the inner side of the earth. They may have found 2 fort and dropped anchor and gone ashore. Prof. Leach looks some like Prof. “Tody” Hamilton, the circus word-wiz ard. Like Hamilton, he is’ very sincere. He talks earnestly and with enthusi asm, “The possibilities of a land inside the earth was first brought to my at tention when I picked up a geode on the shores of the great lakes. ‘The geode is a spherical and apparently solid stone, but when broken is found to be hollow and coated with crystals. The earth is only a larger form of geode, and the law that created the geode in its hollow form undoubtedly fashioned the earth in the same way. “Dr. Kane, the arctic explorer, found evidences of animal life that could not be accounted for. These, I am con vinced, came from the unexplored country, reached only from the poles, whence come the northern lights.” Undergraduates of Brown univer sity, with a scientific turn of mind, find time to drop in at Prof. Leach’s. They are always cordially received and gane away with something to think about. It is matter of fact, this inner world theory, as developed by Prof Leach, is an old one. It came into particular prominence early in the present century, when a man named Symmes, a resident of Cincinnati, pub licly advocated it so persistently that it came to be known and ridiculed as “Symmes’ Hole.”’—Auburn (R. I.) cor respondence, New York World.
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Sat, Apr 25, 1908
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