By experiments made in this way the polar compression is ascertained to be the same as I have mentioned." "What effect would this have on the climate at the poles ?" asked Oxenden.
"That's a complicated question," said the doctor.

"In answer to that we must leave ascertained facts and trust to theories, unless, indeed, we accept as valid the statements of this remarkable manuscript.
For my own part, I see no reason why it should not be as More says.
Remember, this polar world is thirteen miles nearer to the centre of the earth.

Whether this should affect the climate or not, depends upon the nature of the earth's interior.

That interior, according to the popular theory of the present day is a mass of fire.

This theory affirms that the earth was once a red-hot mass, which has cooled down; but the cooling process has only taken place on the surface, leaving the interior still a molten mass of matter in a state of intense heat and combustion.