WITHIN FIVE AND A HALF DEGREES
OF THE POLE
But Barrington has some other very interesting observations. He
quotes a memorandum from the Astronomer Royal of England to the
effect that a Mr. Stephens, sailing on a Dutch ship in 1754, was
driven into latitude 8 1/2 or within 5 1/2 degrees of the pole.
They " did not find the cold excessive, and used little more than
common clothing; met with but little ice, and the less the farther
they went to the Northward. . . It is always clear weather with a
North wind, and thick weather with a Southerly wind. . . Says he has
often tasted the ice when the sea water has been let to run or dry
off of it, and always found it fresh."
The author then goes on to cite many instances of warm weather near
the poles warmer weather in fact than the observers had experienced
at points many degrees further south. He sums up by saying:
"All our accounts agree that in very high latitudes there is less
ice."
THE CONFORMATION OF THE POLAR
BASIN
But although Barrington had no suspicion of the actual shape of the
earth as our theory shows it to be, he did suspect that there was a
depression of the earth's surface at the polar circle.
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Note: List members, the results from operation High Jump also led to comments about there being a depression. There's no other way they can explain it, they cannot fathom that there is an out-and-out basin with an orifice at the bottom, which pens up into a world within. Nor can they imagine that there would be a conspiracy to keep them in ignorance.
Dean
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FROM: A JOURNEY TO THE EARTH'S INTERIOR