Olaf Jansen claims that the northern aperture, intake or hole, so
to speak, is about fourteen hundred miles across. In connection
with this, let us read what Explorer Nansen writes, on page 288
of his book: "I have never had such a splendid sail. On to the
north, steadily north, with a good wind, as fast as steam and
sail can take us, an open sea mile after mile, watch after watch,
through these unknown regions, always clearer and clearer of ice,
one might almost say: 'How long will it last?' The eye always
turns to the northward as one paces the bridge. It is gazing into
the future. But there is always the same dark sky ahead which
means open sea." Again, the Norwood Review of England, in its
issue of May 10, 1884, says: "We do not admit that there is ice
up to the Pole -- once inside the great ice barrier, a new
world breaks upon the explorer, the climate is mild like that of
England, and, afterward, balmy as the Greek Isles."

Some of the rivers "within," Olaf Jansen claims, are larger than
our Mississippi and Amazon rivers combined, in point of volume of
water carried; indeed their greatness is occasioned by their
width and depth rather than their length, and it is at the mouths
of these mighty rivers, as they flow northward and southward
along the inside surface of the earth, that mammoth icebergs are
found, some of them fifteen and twenty miles wide and from forty
to one hundred miles in length.

Is it not strange that there has never been an iceberg
encountered either in the Arctic or Antarctic Ocean that is not
composed of fresh water? Modern scientists claim that freezing
eliminates the salt, but Olaf Jansen claims differently.