{"product_id":"2940014043946","title":"The Monster of Lake Lametrie","description":"Inclosed you will find some portions of the diary it has\u003cbr\u003ebeen my life-long custom to keep, arranged in such a manner as to\u003cbr\u003enarrate connectedly the history of some remarkable occurrences that\u003cbr\u003ehave taken place here during the last three years. Years and years\u003cbr\u003eago, I heard vague accounts of a strange lake high up in an almost\u003cbr\u003einaccessible part of the mountains of Wyoming. Various incredible\u003cbr\u003etales were related of it, such as that it was inhabited by creatures\u003cbr\u003ewhich elsewhere on the globe are found only as fossils of a long\u003cbr\u003evanished time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lake and its surroundings are of volcanic origin, and not the\u003cbr\u003eleast strange thing about the lake is that it is subject to periodic\u003cbr\u003edisturbances, which take the form of a mighty boiling in the centre,\u003cbr\u003eas if a tremendous artesian well were rushing up there from the bowels\u003cbr\u003eof the earth. The lake rises for a time, almost filling the basin of\u003cbr\u003eblack rocks in which it rests, and then recedes, leaving on the shores\u003cbr\u003emollusks and trunks of strange trees and bits of strange ferns which\u003cbr\u003eno longer grow--on the earth, at least--and are to be seen elsewhere\u003cbr\u003eonly in coal measures and beds of stone. And he who casts hook and\u003cbr\u003eline into the dusky waters, may haul forth, ganoid fishes completely\u003cbr\u003ecovered with bony plates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of this is described in the account written by Father LaMetrie\u003cbr\u003eyears ago, and he there advances the theory that the earth is hollow,\u003cbr\u003eand that its interior is inhabited by the forms of plant and animal\u003cbr\u003elife which disappeared from its surface ages ago, and that the lake\u003cbr\u003econnects with this interior region. Symmes' theory of polar orifices\u003cbr\u003eis well known to you. It is amply corroborated. I know that it is true\u003cbr\u003enow. Through the great holes at the poles, the sun sends light and\u003cbr\u003eheat into the interior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree years ago this month, I found my way through the mountains here\u003cbr\u003eto Lake LaMetrie accompanied by a single companion, our friend, young\u003cbr\u003eEdward Framingham. He was led to go with me not so much by scientific\u003cbr\u003efervor, as by a faint hope that his health might be improved by a\u003cbr\u003esojourn in the mountains, for he suffered from an acute form of\u003cbr\u003edyspepsia that at times drove him frantic.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073861239024,"sku":"2940014043946","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014043946_p0.jpg?v=1763599489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014043946","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}