d myself were entertained by the
kind-hearted giant race inhabiting the inner Atlantic Continent.

Having, in my humble way, devoted years to these problems, I am well
acquainted with the accepted definitions of gravity, as well as the
cause of the magnetic needle's attraction, and I am prepared to say that
it is my firm belief that the magnetic needle is influenced solely by
electric currents which completely envelop the earth like a garment,
and that these electric currents in an endless circuit pass out of the
southern end of the earth's cylindrical opening, diffusing and spreading
themselves over all the "outside" surface, and rushing madly on in their
course toward the North Pole. And while these currents seemingly dash
off into space at the earth's curve or edge, yet they drop again to the
"inside" surface and continue their way southward along the inside of
the earth's crust, toward the opening of the so-called South Pole.(24)

(24 "Mr. Lemstrom concluded that an electric discharge which could only
be seen by means of the spectroscope was taking place on the surface of
the ground all around him, and that from a distance it would appear as
a faint display of Aurora, the phenomena of pale and flaming light which
is some times seen on the top of the Spitzbergen Mountains."--The Arctic
Manual, page 739.)

As to gravity, no one knows what it is, because it has not been
determined whether it is atmospheric pressure that causes the apple to
fall, or whether, 150 miles below the surface of the earth, supposedly
one-half way through the earth's crust, there exists some powerful
loadstone attraction that draws it. Therefore, whether the apple, when
it leaves the limb of the tree, is drawn or impelled downward to the
nearest point of resistance, is unknown to the students of physics.

Sir James Ross claimed to have discovered the magnetic pole at about
seventy-four degrees latitude. This is wrong--the magnetic pole is
exactly one-half the distance through the earth's crust. Thus, if the
earth's crust is three hundred miles in thickness, which is the distance
I estimate it to be, then the magnetic pole is undoubtedly one hundred
and fifty miles below the surface of the earth, it matters not where the
test is made. And at this particular point one hundred and fifty miles
below the surface, gravity ceases, becomes neutralized; and when we pass
beyond that point on toward the "inside" surface of the earth, a reverse
attracti