From Lucy comes this:
The Subtly-Askew Museum
'Bottle, ca. 1833. Recovered from the sea by Lieut. Alexander Romney aboard
H.M.S Desperate, adrift in the North Atlantic off the coast of Greenland. The
accidental discovery of this bottle, the only artifact surviving the destruction of
an ill-fated ship and crew (among those lost, we must assume, was the anonymous
dealer in antiquities who penned the manuscript which the bottle contained) provided
the first physical evidence in support of what had been, to that point, merely an
inspired speculation advanced by the now-legendary John Cleves Symmes. In the
present enlightened age it may be difficult to realize that at that time Symmes's
suggestion that the interior of the earth was hollow and habitable, and that
vast openings existed at both the northern and southern polar regions,was
derided by most savants.' ...and further...
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