Another Arctic tidbit from Kane:
THE HOLLOW EARTH
WHAT PRODUCES COLORED SNOW IN THE ARCTIC?
Why is the snow colored in the Arctic regions? The snow has been
analyzed and the red, green and yellow have been found to contain
vegetable matter, presumably a flower, or the pollen of a plant. From
where did it come? A flower that produced pollen sufficient to
permeate the air with such density that it colored the snow, which
require a vast territory-millions of acres-to grow it. Where is that
to be found? It must be near the North Pole, for, if it grew
elsewhere, colored snow would be found at other locations, and not be
confined to the Arctic regions. As no such flowering plant is known
on the earth's surface, we must look elsewhere.
"The interior of the earth is the only spot that will furnish us with
an answer to the question. As the colors fall at different seasons,
we may presume that the flowers mature at these seasons. It is also
easy to find out where the black snow, frequently mentioned by the
explorers, comes from. It comes out of an exploding volcano-of the
kind that covered Nansen's ship with dust. All un-explained questions
could be easily answered if one would believe that the earth is
hollow. It is impossible to answer them under any other theory.
"Kane, in his first volume, page 44, says: `We passed the Crimson
Cliffs at Sir John Ross in the forenoon of August 5th. The patches of
red snow from which they derive their name could be seen clearly at
the distance of ten miles from the coast. It had a fine deep rose
hue.'
"Kane speaks of the red snow as if it had a regular season in which
to appear-as he says, `if the snowy surface were more diffused, as it
is no doubt earlier in the season.' In another place he speaks of the
red snow being two weeks later than usual. Now taking the fact into
account that the material that colors the snow is a vegetable matter,
supposed to be the blossom or pollen of a plant, and that no such
plant grows on earth, where does it come from? It must grow in the
interior of the earth."
From The Hollow Earth, pages 110 – 111
WHERE AND HOW ARE ICEBERGS FORMED?
Since icebergs are formed from fresh water, not salty ocean water,
they could not be formed from the Arctic Ocean, but by some fresh
body of water. However there is no fresh body of water in the polar
region. Reed's theory is that icebergs are formed from rivers coming
from the interior of the earth and flowing toward the surface through
the polar opening. When they reach the cold exterior they freeze,
while more water passes over the frozen part and freezes too, forming
mountains of ice. With the coining of summer, these big masses of ice
are thawed loose and break off, falling into the sea and producing
the mysteri-ous tidal waves observed in the far north. Reed says:
"It is simply out of the question for an iceberg to form in any
location yet discovered. On the other hand, the interior of the earth-
back from the mouth of rivers or canyons-being warmer, is just suited
for the forma-tion of icebergs. The mouth freezes first, and the
river, continuing to flow to the ocean, overflows the mouth, and
freezes for months, until spring. As the warm weather of summer
advances, and, owing to the warmth of the earth, the bergs are thawed
loose, and water from the rains in the interior rushes up, and they
are shoved into the ocean, and tidal waves started.
"Note the difference. On the outside of the earth, the whole length
of a stream is frozen, and the farther inland the harder the
freezing, while in the interior of the earth (at the polar opening)
only the mouth is frozen. In the interior of the earth, there is not
only plenty of water to produce icebergs, but plenty to shove them
into the ocean.
"For the last three hundred years a fairly steady stream of explorers
have been trying to reach the Pole-Arctic and Antarctic-and no one
has ever seen an iceberg leaving its original location and plunging
into the ocean. Isn't it strange that no one thought of asking about
their place of origin?"
In support of the theory that icebergs, made from fresh water, cannot
be formed on the outside of the earth and must come from fresh water
rivers in its interior, Reed quotes Bernacchi who, writing on his
observations in the Antarctic, says: "There was less than two inches
of rainfall in eleven and one-half months, and while it snowed quite
frequently, it never fell to any great depth. Under such conditions,
where would mate-rials be found to produce an iceberg? Yet the
greatest one on earth is there-one so large that it is called the
Great Ice Barrier, rather than an iceberg-being over four hundred
miles long and fifty miles wide. It is grounded in two thousand one
hundred feet of water, and extends from eighty to two hundred feet
above water." Reed comments: "Now it would be impossible for this
iceberg to form in a country having practically no rain or snow. As
icebergs are made from frozen water, and there is no water to freeze,
it evidently was formed at some place other than where it now is. The
iceberg itself, being of fresh water, lies in an ocean of salt water.
"How do I know that the great ice barrier came from the interior of
the earth? Or from the kind of river described? First, it could not
come from the exterior of the earth, since icebergs are not formed
there. That river must have been 2,500 feet deep, fifty miles across
and from four to five hundred miles long, for these are the present
dimensions of the iceberg. The river had to be straight or the
iceberg could not pass out without breaking. It passed through a
comparatively level country because the surface is still flat.
Another proof that the interior of the earth is level near the
Antarctic entrance is that many of the icebergs found in the
Antarctic are long and slim. They are called `ice tongues,' which
indicates that they came out of rivers running nearly on a level. The
icebergs found in the Arctic, on the other hand, are more chunky,
indicating that they come from a more mountainous country, where the
fall of streams is more abrupt, causing the icebergs to be shorter
and thicker.
"When Bernacchi was voyaging in the Antarctic, he wrote: `During the
next two days we passed some thousands of icebergs, as many as ninety
being counted from the bridge at one time. There was very little
variety of form among them, all being very large and bounded by
perpendicular cliffs. There was a large quantity of fresh water at
the surface, derived from the number of icebergs.'
"How does this account accord with your notions of how icebergs are
formed in a country where Bernacchi reports less than two inches of
rainfall in the whole year, and but small quantities of snow? Where
is the water to come from that will produce such great quanti-ties of
icebergs averaging a thousand feet in thickness, and many of them
several miles long? Those icebergs were on their way north-never to
return-yet the ocean will always be filled with them, as others will
come from the place where they came. Where is that place? There is no
rain or melted snow to furnish the water to freeze into an iceberg.
Icebergs can come from only one place- the INTERIOR Of the earth.
TIDAL WAVES. Reed here repeats the description of Arctic tidal waves
by various explorers. They lift the ice of the great ice fields to
great heights and can be heard for miles in the distance before they
reach the ship and for miles after they pass beyond the ship. Arctic
ex-plorers describe these tidal waves as follows: "Giant blocks
pitched and rolled as though controlled by in-visible hands, and the
vast compressing bodies shrieked a shrill and horrible sound that
curdled the blood. On came the frozen waves. Seams ran and rattled
across them with a thundering boom, while we watched their terrible
progress." Reed says: "These tidal waves are caused by some
tremendous agency and I can think of nothing more powerful than the
plunging of an iceberg into the ocean. The great frequency of these
powerful tidal waves seems to exclude the possibility of their being
caused by underwater volcanic eruptions."
THE HOLLOW EARTH VIEW OF THE WATER-SKY
The skies in the Arctic and Antarctic circles reflect the surface of
the earth, water and ice, accurately. No great enterprise is
undertaken without first consulting the water-sky.