At the end of each selection is a brief explanatory note.

Excerpts from Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery, by Capt. Adam Seaborn. 1820.

Diagram of the hollow earth. From Symzonia.

Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, Advertisement and Preface. By a citizen of the United States, 1826.

Excerpts from Benjamin Morrell's A Narrative of Four Voyages. J. & J. Harper, New York, 1832. Highlighted sections in the text are linked to sections of Pym to which they bear striking resemblance--or disresemblance. To return, click on the correspondingly highlighted section of Pym.

South-Sea Expedition: Address on the subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas. Delivered in the Hall of Representatives, April 3, 1836. Reprinted in the Southern Literary Messenger, January, 1837. By J. N. Reynolds. With Critical Notice by Edgar A. Poe, Editor.

Leaves from an Unpublished Journal, by J. N. Reynolds. Published in the New York Mirror, April 21, 1838.

The Romantic History of Jeremiah N. Reynolds. In Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, 1889.