Symmes would eventually earn an enormous audience for his theory in the US, touring tirelessly in the 1820s. He was largely ridiculed, sure, but miraculously managed to get a congressman to petition his colleagues in Washington for the funding to reach the North Pole and discover the 4,000-mile-wide entrance to these lands. And while he never got his expedition, dying an early and penniless death, he helped jump-start a glorious new era of exploration---and arguably helped transform American science as we know it.
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