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surface.
In their log-books Arctic explorers tell us of the dipping of the needle as the
vessel sails in regions of the farthest north known. In reality, they are at the
curve; on the edge of the shell, where gravity is geometrically increased, and
while the electric current seemingly dashes off into space toward the phantom
idea of the North Pole, yet this same electric current drops again and continues
its course southward along the inside surface of the earth's crust.
In the appendix to his work, Captain Sabine gives an account of experiments to
determine the acceleration of the pendulum in different latitudes. This appears
to have resulted from the joint labor of Peary and Sabine. He says: "The
accidental discovery that a pendulum on being removed from Paris to the
neighborhood of the equator increased its time of vibration, gave the first step
to our present knowledge that the polar axis of the globe is less than the
equatorial; that the force of gravity at the surface of the earth increases
progressively from the equator toward the poles."
According to Olaf Jansen, in the beginning this old world of ours was created
solely for the "within" world, where are located the four great rivers -- the
Euphrates, the Pison, the Gihon and the Hiddekel. These same names of rivers,
when applied to streams on the "outside" surface of the earth, are purely
traditional from an antiquity beyond the memory of man.
On the top of a high mountain, near the fountain-head of these four rivers, Olaf
Jansen, the Norseman, claims to have discovered the long-lost "Garden of Eden,"
the veritable navel of the earth, and to have spent over two years studying and
reconnoitering in this marvelous "within" land, exuberant with stupendous plant
life and abounding in giant animals; a land where the people live to be
centuries old, after the order of Methuselah and other Biblical characters; a
region where one-quarter of the "inner" surface is water and three-quarters
land; where there are large oceans and many rivers and lakes; where the cities
are superlative in construction and magnificence; where modes of transportation
are as far in advance of ours as we with our boasted achievements are in advance
of the inhabitants of "darkest Africa."
The distance directly across the space from inner surface to inner surface is
about six hundred miles less than the recognized diameter of the earth. In the
identical center of this vast vacuum is the seat of electricity -- a mammoth
ball of dull red fire -- not startlingly brilliant, but surrounded by a white,
mild, luminous cloud, giving out uniform warmth, and held in its place in the
center of this internal space by the immutable law of gravitation. This
electrical cloud is known to the people "within" as the abode of "The Smoky
God." They believe it to be the throne of "The Most High."
Olaf Jansen reminded me of how, in the old college days, we were all familiar
with the laboratory demonstrations of centrifugal motion, which clearly proved
that, if the earth were a solid, the rapidity of its revolution upon its axis
would tear it into a thousand fragments.
The old Norseman also maintained that from the farthest points of land on the
islands of Spitzbergen and Franz Josef Land, flocks of geese may be seen
annually flying still farther northward, just as the sailors and explorers
record in their log-books. No scientist has yet been audacious enough to attempt
to explain, even to his own satisfaction, toward what lands these winged fowls
are guided by their subtle instinct. However, Olaf Jansen has given us a most
reasonable explanation.