| Show DANGEROUS LAKES submarine currents lix la some ot t the northern waters Wt er z little lake is stated to have a flat bottom with a depth varying from fifty eight to seventy four feet measured from the mean high water mark the deepest water found in the great says the vancouver world was five hundred and fifty five fet feet about six ix mues miles northward from narrows in seymour arm though the whole lake is notably deep adams lake however exceeds either of the Shu swaps as its average depth for twenty miles is upward of one thousand one hundred feet and atone point a depth of one thousand nine hundred feet was recorded in the northwest comer of this lake at a depth of one thousand one hundred and eighteen feet the purpose of the scientific explorers was defeated by the presence of mysterious submarine currents which played with the sounding line like some giant fish and prevented any measurement being taken it is a complete mystery how the currents could have dhave been created at this depth and scientific curiosity will no doubt impel either public or private enter priss to send a second expedition to the scene this summer to endeavor to solve the riddle As the height of the surface of this lake is one thousand three hundred and eighty feet above the sea level its present bed is therefore only one hundred and ninety feet above the sea although distant two hundred miles from the nearest part of the ocean dr dawson and ana his associates believe that the beds of some of the mountain lakes in the region are many feet lower than the sea level |
