Show THE INTERNAL REGIONS nearly forty years ago in the autumn of 1864 1854 to speak with more exactness a gentleman now a resident of city an aal 1 at present anti and for many years past buat an estr esteemed emed ft friend bend of the DESERET nims NEWS found himself like many others before and since that time plodding his way wearily along the long road between the missouri river and the vt adleys aleys of the mountains fountai nf of all that thousand miles and more mere ot of travel there was little that he be did not cover step by step MS as he be walked along side the wagon train we need not mention the mo monotony n of the tri trip P W with jtb one day like another and one week of toil being but the counterpart of the one which preceded and the one which followed it il the experience need not be recalled to those who passed through ik it and none others could appreciate it from any descried description tion we can here give one hazy afternoon iu late indian summer our friend saw Autt fluttering efing by the roadside a fragment of newa newspaper paper with the zeal real starving avidity that au an educated man in time of scarcity rushes upon even a scrap of mental fod he picked up a tattered copy of the DESERET NEWS NEWIL line liine by line he read and reread re read it it had bad possibly been thrown out ofa of a mall mail pouch months before perhaps by indians indiana or possibly bad been brought eastward by a valley passenger and thrown out upon the prairie at ac any rate there it was wap and it was sweeter sweater to our briend than any morsel he had received since hig bis toilsome journey began on its first page he be read an account of jonathan wilders Wll ders narrative of his visit to the internal regions of this earth that we inhabit and on an inside page were some remarks on the subject by the editor the circumstances referred to and the request of a valued friend are the cause of the reproduction of these articles in this issue ot of the they appeared in no 8 of vol 11 II the paper being dated feb 21 1862 1852 dr willard richards was at the time editor and publisher of odthe the NEWS and his comments follow the main article as we deput lish liah it it 0 orly jy remains to be said that during the forty years since dr richards wrote the worl J has learned little more about the boies of the earth than was wao known thou then and that the idea of the hollow ness of the planet and its probable habitation on the interior by hums huma n beings still atilland finds respectable adherents adhe renti we resubmit submit the curious and ancient narrative with no other comment than thip and for the reason above given |