thousand feet higher than any portion of the surrounding country. It is the most beautiful placeI have ever beheld in all my travels. In this elevated garden all manner of fruits, vines, shrubs,trees, and flowers grow in riotous profusion. In this garden four rivers have their source in amighty artesian fountain. They divide and flow in four directions." (THE SMOKY GOD, pp. 113,114) That mountain can be seen on Mercator'smap of the arctic which first appeared asa vignette in his 1569 world map. TheFlemish geographer and cartographerGerardus Mercator's methods of map-making were so accurate and reliablethat they are still commonly used today(for example, the Mercator projection)and have remained virtually unchangedfor nearly 450 years! His maps of Europeand the known world were exceptionallyaccurate and were commonly used with agreat degree of reliability for navigationand commerce.Bear in mind that prior to the advent of GPS and satellite navigational aids,exploration was the sole method of acquiring the data necessary foraccurately portraying geographicaldetails on a map. So, when we view Mercator's representation of the Arctic as containing alarge landmass, equally divided into four sections by massive rivers, it stands to reason thatthis data was acquired by means of thorough exploration. It also is apparent that, according tothe perspective of the early explorers, they had no way of knowing that the land mass theywere then encountering actually lay at the interior of the earth. Instead they assumed, as didmany at the time, that the massive island or continent they found was actually an "island at thetop of the world." Mercator's representation of the Arctic also very closely parallels theexperiences of Olaf Jansen and his father in their exploration of the inner world.So, it can be seen why and how these myths of an "undiscovered" northern region ... a landbeyond the north wind came to be and how a man, so obsessed with details as was Mercator,painstakingly reproduced the knowledge he had in his possession on his map of the Arctic.In 1827, William Morgan, whose wife later became one of Joseph Smith's plural wives, wastaken on a mission to Inner Earth -- most likely through the same cavern system that Adam andEve wandered through on their journey from the Garden of Eden within to their home without.William Morgan had joined the Free Masonic movement with the intent on learning their secretsso he could subsequently publish their secret rites, which he did. As punishment for this, theMasons, had him thrown in jail for a debt, then stole him out of prison. They took him to asecluded shack out in the woods. They dug up a body that resembled him, and threw it into ariver and published an account in the papers that it was William Morgan. There was a biguproar by the people that lived in the vicinity -- all neighbors of the prophet Joseph Smith --with preachers and citizens rising up against the Masons for what they had done.But the Masons didn't kill William Morgan. They secretly took him to live as a prisoner to acabin in the woods until he grew a long beard. They then added some chemicals to his skinand beard and hair on his head to turn it so he looked like a very old man. They then took him10