The existence of an open sea beyond the ice belt has for years been conceded. As no explorer has reached much nearer than 750 miles of the supposed poles, it is reasonable to suppose that the open sea, so-called, but really a hole must be nearly fifteen hundred miles in diameter. Various evidences have settled that question in the minds of navigators, the most important of which is that the sea fowls still fly beyond the reach of man’s explorations. The fact alone that wild geese, ducks, and other sea fowl go on to some feeding ground is enough to settle all doubts or arguments for or against the theory of an open sea of fresh water around the supposed poles. Conclusive reasons are that no water fowl or fish can live in an ocean of salt water. Strictly salt waters do not furnish any food; but only in bodies fed by streams of fresh waters, as in bays, inlets and mouths of rivers, and adjacent to the coast line of continents or islands where fresh water from springs and rainfalls contribute to produce growth and substances suitable for food. It was observed by the navigator, Ross, that moose, reindeer, wolves, musk-ox, white bear, and foxes seek winter quarters toward the north rather than to the south, and return when the season becomes favorable, with their young. Fish are noticed to come south but not to return. As to water fowl, how far they could follow this opening into the center of the Earth, the writer will leave for others to conjecture. It has often been a query from whence came the Arctic elephants, the remains of which are found so plentifully on the north shores of Siberia, some of which during the last century have been in such a state of preservation as that their flesh was eatable by bears and wolves. Why were they protected by a covering of hair if not originating in a colder climate than exists south of the Arctic Circle? Do they not still exist in the interior, or have they passed out with the great Auk, a former external resident? Why are the latitudes nearest the poles the favorite fishing grounds for whales? Is not the interior ocean of fresh water their natural breeding ground and from thence passing out through Behring Strait and other channels into the outer waters? Can some scientist give us reliable information as to where whales propagate most, and why it is necessary for whaling expeditions to seek high latitudes for their catch? The hole, fifteen hundred miles across, would not give any conscious impression of there being such an opening. You could not stand and inspect it like looking down a well. This hole opens into a new world unexplored by man, unless it is possible that Sir John Franklin and the Aeronaut Nansen unintentionally drifted in and were unable to navigate themselves out.