All the western states and territories . rious places in Ken-tucky and Ohio. In the year 1822, Capt. Symmes petitionedthe congress of the United State?, settingforth, in the first place, his belief of the ex-istence of a habitable and accessible concaveto this glbbe; his desire to embark on a voy-age of discovery to one or other of the polarregions; his belief in the great profit and honorhis country would derive from such a dis-covery; and prayed that congress would equipand tit out ibr the expedition, two vessels,of two hundred and fifty or three hundredtuns burden; and grant such other aid
All the western states and territories . rious places in Ken-tucky and Ohio. In the year 1822, Capt. Symmes petitionedthe congress of the United State?, settingforth, in the first place, his belief of the ex-istence of a habitable and accessible concaveto this glbbe; his desire to embark on a voy-age of discovery to one or other of the polarregions; his belief in the great profit and honorhis country would derive from such a dis-covery; and prayed that congress would equipand tit out ibr the expedition, two vessels,of two hundred and fifty or three hundredtuns burden; and grant such other aid as gov-ernment might deem necessary to promote theobject. This petition was presented in thesenate by Col. Richard M. Johnson, on the 7th day of March, 1822, when (a motion torefer it to the committee of foi-eifin relations having failed), after a few remarks it waslaid on the table—Ayes, 25. In December, 182.), he forwarded similar petitions to bothhouses of congress, which met with a simihir f\ite. In January 1824, he petitioned the. MOXtMENT OF J. C. SVMMES, Symmes IIolo memory. It is surmountedby a. globe open at the poles. OHIO. Ill ceneral assembly of the state of Ohio, praying th^^t body to pass a resolution approbatoryof bis theory; and to recommend him to congress for an outfit suitable to tlie memorial was presented by Micajah T. Williams, and, on motion, the further con-sideration thereof was indefinitely postponed. His theory was met with ridicule, botli in this country ami Europe, and I)ecuraca fruitful source of jest and levity, to the public prints of the day. Notwithstaud-ini:, he advant^ed many plausible and ingenious arguments, and won quite a number of converts among those who attended his lectures, one of whom, a gentlemanof Hamilton, wrote a work in its support, published in Cincinnati in 182(), in whichhe stated his readiness to embark on a voyage of discovery to the North Pole, forthe purpose of testing its truth. Capt. Symmes met with
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