expeditionary plans to Congress, a request that was indefinitely postponed. Similarly, the Burrows, and Channels, and Clefts, and Caverns described in Thomas Burnets Sacred Theory of the Earth (1681 although testifying to the unsoundness and hollowness of the Earth in the inward recesses of it, are lifeless and uninhabitable recesses, never having had the comfort. The new Liberty Bell Center features exciting exhibits on the history of this world-famous icon of freedom. The Liberty Bell, which weighs about 2,000 pounds, was silenced by a crack in 1846. Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earths Surface. This building is a reconstruction of the one built by the Carpenters' Company in 1791, and it originally housed the office of the first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, and his staff. Mary's Church Built in 1763, Old. Historys pen may yet inscribe the name Of symmes to grace her future scroll of fame.

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