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Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799–1858), also known as J.N. Reynolds, was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'' (1838) and his 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific", influenced Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' (1851).
==Early life==
Born into poverty in Pennsylvania, he moved to Ohio as a child. In his teenage years and early 20s, he taught school, saved his money and attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio for three years. He then edited the ''Spectator'' newspaper in Wilmington, Ohio, but sold his interest in it in about 1823.〔() Web page titled, "The Romantic History of Jeremiah N. Reynolds" at the "American Studies at the University of Virginia" Web site, accessed August 12, 2006〕
The next year, Reynolds began a lecture tour with John Cleves Symmes, Jr.. Reynolds had become a convert to Symmes' theory that the earth is hollow. Symmes' idea was accepted as possible by some respected scientists of the time.〔Philbrick, Nathaniel, ''Sea of Glory'', pages 19-20, Hereafter: Sea of Glory〕 The two presented talks on the subject. When Symmes died, Reynolds continued his lectures, which were given to full houses in Eastern U.S. cities (with a charge of 50 cents for admission).〔
Over time, Reynolds became willing to accept the possibility that the theory was wrong. In Philadelphia, Reynolds and Symmes parted.〔''Sea of Glory'', page 20〕
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