rnal 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.

The presence of the open sea in the Northland is also explained. Olaf
Jansen claims that the northern aperture, intake or hole, so to speak,
is about fourteen hundred miles across. In connection with this, let us
read what Explorer Nansen writes, on page 288 of his book: "I have never
had such a splendid sail. On to the north, steadily north, with a good
wind, as fast as steam and sail can take us, an open sea mile after
mile, watch after watch, through these unknown regions, always clearer
and clearer of ice, one might almost say: 'How long will it last?' The
eye always turns to the northward as one paces the bridge. It is gazing
into the future. But there is always the same dark sky ahead which means
open sea." Again, the Norwood Review of England, in its issue of May
10, 1884, says: "We do not admit that there is ice up to the Pole--once
inside the great ice barrier, a new world breaks upon the explorer, the
climate is mild like that of England, and, afterward, balmy as the Greek
Isles."

Some of the rivers "within," Olaf Jansen claims, are larger than our
Mississippi and Amazon rivers combined, in point of volume of water
carried; indeed their greatness is occasioned by their width and depth
rather than their length, and it is at the mouths of these mighty
rivers, as they flow northward and southward along the inside surface
of the earth, that mammoth icebergs are found, some of them fifteen and
twenty miles wide and from forty to one hundred miles in length.

Is it not stra