<h2> PART SIX. CONCLUSION </h2>
<p>IN concluding this history of my adventures, I wish to state that I firmly
believe science is yet in its infancy concerning the cosmology of the
earth. There is so much that is unaccounted for by the world's accepted
knowledge of to-day, and will ever remain so until the land of "The Smoky
God" is known and recognized by our geographers.</p>
<p>It is the land from whence came the great logs of cedar that have been
found by explorers in open waters far over the northern edge of the
earth's crust, and also the bodies of mammoths whose bones are found in
vast beds on the Siberian coast.</p>
<p>Northern explorers have done much. Sir John Franklin, De Haven Grinnell,
Sir John Murray, Kane, Melville, Hall, Nansen, Schwatka, Greely, Peary,
Ross, Gerlache, Bernacchi, Andree, Amsden, Amundson and others have all
been striving to storm the frozen citadel of mystery.</p>
<p>I firmly believe that Andree and his two brave companions, Strindberg and
Fraenckell, who sailed away in the balloon "Oreon" from the northwest
coast of Spitzbergen on that Sunday afternoon of July 11, 1897, are now in
the "within" world, and doubtless are being entertained, as my father and
myself were entertained by the kind-hearted giant race inhabiting the
inner Atlantic Continent.</p>
<p>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)</p>
<p>(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.)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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
attraction geometrically increases in power, until the other one hundred
and fifty miles of distance is traversed, which would bring us out on the
"inside" of the earth.</p>
<p>Thus, if a hole were bored down through the earth's crust at London,
Paris, New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, a distance of three hundred
miles, it would connect the two surfaces. While the inertia and momentum
of a weight dropped in from the "outside" surface would carry it far past
the magnetic center, yet, before reaching the "inside" surface of the
earth it would gradually diminish in speed, after passing the halfway
point, finally pause and immediately fall back toward the "outside"
surface, and continue thus to oscillate, like the swinging of a pendulum
with the power removed, until it would finally rest at the magnetic
center, or at that particular point exactly one-half the distance between
the "outside" surface and the "inside" surface of the earth.</p>
<p>The gyration of the earth in its daily act of whirling around in its
spiral rotation—at a rate greater than one thousand miles every
hour, or about seventeen miles per second—makes of it a vast
electro-generating body, a huge machine, a mighty prototype of the
puny-man-made dynamo, which, at best, is but a feeble imitation of
nature's original.</p>
<p>The valleys of this inner Atlantis Continent, bordering the upper waters
of the farthest north are in season covered with the most magnificent and
luxuriant flowers. Not hundreds and thousands, but millions, of acres,
from which the pollen or blossoms are carried far away in almost every
direction by the earth's spiral gyrations and the agitation of the wind
resulting therefrom, and it is these blossoms or pollen from the vast
floral meadows "within" that produce the colored snows of the Arctic
regions that have so mystified the northern explorers.(25)</p>
<p>(25 Kane, vol. I, page 44, says: "We passed the 'crimson cliffs' of Sir
John Ross in the forenoon of August 5th. The patches of red snow from
which they derive their name could be seen clearly at the distance of ten
miles from the coast."</p>
<p>La Chambre, in an account of Andree's balloon expedition, on page 144,
says: "On the isle of Amsterdam the snow is tinted with red for a
considerable distance, and the savants are collecting it to examine it
microscopically. It presents, in fact, certain peculiarities; it is
thought that it contains very small plants. Scoresby, the famous whaler,
had already remarked this.")</p>
<p>Beyond question, this new land "within" is the home, the cradle, of the
human race, and viewed from the standpoint of the discoveries made by us,
must of necessity have a most important bearing on all physical,
paleontological, archaeological, philological and mythological theories of
antiquity.</p>
<p>The same idea of going back to the land of mystery—to the very
beginning—to the origin of man—is found in Egyptian traditions
of the earlier terrestrial regions of the gods, heroes and men, from the
historical fragments of Manetho, fully verified by the historical records
taken from the more recent excavations of Pompeii as well as the
traditions of the North American Indians.</p>
<p>It is now one hour past midnight—the new year of 1908 is here, and
this is the third day thereof, and having at last finished the record of
my strange travels and adventures I wish given to the world, I am ready,
and even longing, for the peaceful rest which I am sure will follow life's
trials and vicissitudes. I am old in years, and ripe both with adventures
and sorrows, yet rich with the few friends I have cemented to me in my
struggles to lead a just and upright life. Like a story that is well-nigh
told, my life is ebbing away. The presentiment is strong within me that I
shall not live to see the rising of another sun. Thus do I conclude my
message. OLAF JANSEN.</p>
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