Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 26 -- Subterranean Water Bodies
approach velocity and drop might appear to the hollow-earth Ecuadorians, Americans and
Eskimos.
Waterfall near equator Waterfall at mid latitude
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Waterfall near pole
Waterfalls of our solid earth are inspirational, but not as awesome as if their trajectory depended
on location.
Connections between the Inner and Outer Earth
Capt. Seaborn, whom we encountered in Chapter 14, knew from Symmes where he was sailing
when he passed around the verge and into the inner earth. Symzonia (1820) is thorough
regarding the subterranean civilization, but not much in the way of hydrology.
We ascended the river, the banks of which, and all the country near them, appeared like one
beautiful and highly cultivated garden, with neat low buildings scattered throughout the scene.
The collection The Pacha of Many Tales (1835) by Frederick Marryat tells of blue-skinned
descendants of Vasco da Gama, but the author also knew Greek philosophy. "Last Voyage"
explains the hollow earth.
There is a universal balance throughout nature, and everything finds its level. There is order,
when there appears disorder -- and no stream runs in one direction, without a counter stream,
to restore the equilibrium.
Unsatisfied as we may be with hollow-earth physics, we commend Marry for recognizing that the
conservation of mass must be satisfied in any system.
John Uri Lloyd's Etidorpha (1895) documents the adventure of a
man who joins a secret and nefarious society for the purpose of
publishing the organization's beliefs and rituals. When he does so,
the society kidnaps him, transforms him into an old man and
sends him off in a 1500-kilometers/hour magnetic boat into the
earth's interior.
I find it hard to realize that water can be so immovable. I
supposed the substance before us to be a rigid material like
glass, perhaps.
There is no wind to ruffle this aqueous surface, -- why should it
not be quiescent? This is the only perfectly smooth sheet of
water that yon have ever seen. It is in absolute rest, and thus
appears a rigid level plane.
The surface of this lake lies as a mirror beneath both the ocean and the land. The force effect
that preserves the configuration of the ocean preserves the form of this also, but influences it to
a less extent, and the two surfaces lie nearly parallel with each other, this one being one
hundred and fifty miles beneath the surface of the earth. The shell of the earth above us is
honeycombed by caverns in some places, in others it is compact, and yet, in most places, is
impervious to water. At the farther extremity of the lake, a stratum of porous material extends
through the space intervening between the bottom of the ocean and this lake. By capillary
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