Show deep 1101 4 in the ocean the deepest spots so BO fai bounded in the ocean were found a year or two ngo ago by the surveying ship penguin m hile returning from the th elonga 1 I onga group to new zealand in thice places a depth exceeding five thousand fathoms was found nil fill these soundings made the deepest water found was to ot of japan where in 1874 the united states steamer tuscarora obtained a cast of 4 fathoms the penguins soundings are 6 5 5 and 5 fathoms I 1 ahe he increase is therefore fathoms or 3 feet these thebe soundings are separated ironi from one another by water much less deep and the holes hole may not be connected the distance aiom the two extreme soundings Is miles specimens of ho bottom were wera recovered recoN ered from the ONNI ivl deeper soundings and prone proe to oo 00 the usual red cay found in all the deepest parts of the ocean those these soundings afford additional evidence of the observed fact that the deepest holes are not in the centers of tile the oceans but aie near land as two of them are within one hundred miles of islands inlands of the Keiman dec group and the other not fir far from a shoal doubtless deaper depressions in the bed of the tha sea are iet to be found but the fact that this sounding of feet shows shams that the ocean contains depressions pres below the surface greater than the elo elation Nation of the highest known moun taina Is perhaps worthy of record |