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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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We
had
a
fine
gale
from
the
S.
W.,
and
made
rapid
progress
to
the
S.
E.
under
canvass.
Although
the
most
perfect
satisfaction
with
the
course
I
had
determined
on
appeared
to
prevail
throughout
the
ship's
company,
Mr.
Slim
came
to
me
in
my
cabin,
when
relieved
from
his
watch
on
deck,
and
told
me,
that,
however
satisfactory
my
account
of
the
matter
might
have
been
to
the
other
officers
and
the
crew,
it
was
not
satisfactory
to
his
mind;
and
he
should
be
glad
to
be
informed
how
I
accounted
for
the
vast
bodies
of
ice
which
had
invariably
stopped
the
progress
of
navigators
in
high
latitudes,
if
my
notions
of
great
heat
at
the
poles
were
correct?
"Take
a
chair,
Mr.
Slim,
and
we
will
talk
about
it.
In
the
first
place,
we
have
no
account
of
any
navigator
having
sailed
to
a
higher
southern
latitude
than
71°,
and
82°
appears,
from
the
most
authentic
accounts,
to
be
the
highest
northern
latitude
that
has
been
visited.
Navigators
to
these
high
latitudes
have
always
found
ice
between
the
parallels
of
70°
and
80°,
which
space
that
profound
philosopher,
John
Cleve
Symmes,
denominates
the
'icy
hoop.'
It
is
true
he
has
not
taken
the
trouble
to
explain
to
the
world,
in
a
satisfactory
manner,
why
and
wherefore
this
narrow
strip
of
ice
should
exist
in
that
region;
which
omission,
I
judge,
must
have
arisen
from
the
circumstance
of
its
being
obvious
to
his
capacious
mind,
that
such
a
'hoop'
must
necessarily
exist,
'according
to
the
laws
of
matter
and
motion.'
The
causes
of
it
appearing
to
him
perfectly
simple,
he
could
not
suppose
it
necessary
to
state
them
to
'the
most
enlightened
people
on
the
face
of
the
globe.'
Now,
sir,
I
will
explain
the
matter
to
you.
At
the
pole,
that
is,
ninety
degrees
from
the
equator,
there
is
seven
months
summer,
without
any
interval
of
night,
as
I
stated
on
deck;
and
when
the
sun
has
twenty-three
and
a
half
degrees
of
south
declination,
its
rays
must
strike
the
pole,
allowing
but
three
degrees
for
the
effect
of
refraction,
on
an
angle
of
26-1/2°
with
the
plane
of
the
horizon,
and
must
appear
nearly
as
high
as
in
Scotland
in
the
months
of
March
and
September.
It
is
true
it
does
not
continue
at
this
extreme
declination
for
any
great
length
of
time.
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