But Reynolds remained undaunted and hit the streets, soliciting enough donations to privately hire two sloops. The military proceeded to slow-walk the project until the 1828 election, when Quincy Adams was defeated by Andrew Jackson, who promptly killed the idea. The Navy was outraged that a civilian like Reynolds was running the show, and even more upset that he wanted to bring civilian scientists along (their preferred plan was to simply throw a botany textbook at a random ensign and hope he figured out how to catalogue plants by the time they hit Cape Horn). Harper's New Monthly Magazine Wait, they didn’t leap at the chance to go searching for the Great Polar Butthole? Unfortunately, Reynolds was about to face a more dangerous enemy than even the Mole Men of Earth Sphere 3-bureaucratic infighting!

This was before the continent of Antarctica had even been discovered, so the area was completely uncharted. In fact, he insisted that there would only be a thin band of ice surrounding the mighty hole, informing the startled public that 'I ask one hundred brave companions, well equipped, to start from Siberia in the fall season, with reindeers and sleighs, in the ice of the frozen sea I engage we find a warm and rich land, stocked with thrifty vegetables and animals, if not men … we will return in the succeeding spring.” And who among us can resist the lure of thrifty vegetables?īy 1827, he had won the support of the John Quincy Adams administration, which commissioned the USS Peacock to explore the mysterious waters of the South Pole. Now this was a daunting prospect, since nobody had ever got anywhere near the North Pole at that point in history, but Symmes refused to be intimidated by such a seal-plagued wasteland. He began promoting his theory across the country, seeking to raise funds for an expedition to the North Pole to discover the entrance to the inner world. Related: Cracked Apologizes To John Quincy Adams 3 The Quest For The Hidden World Beginsīut Symmes wasn’t the kind of weakling who would drop an idea just because everyone was pointing at him and laughing.

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