| Show OCEANS DOWN DOWNY Y BED AWAY DOWN FIVE MILES THE WAVES almost as lavel all a house floor iris for hie tile gensin strahle clr nie molo frons throe three to rive awes high or no only few years ago tho the bottoms ot of tho the great ease of the tb world ivere unknown and unexplored and tho the abys gas beneath their water remained unfathomed such bounding sounding ms a wore attempted made with ropes and crude apparatus and away from tho the shallows allowe eh no bottom wits tho the record mord upon tho the charte charts it remained for tho the ingenuity of thie this generation of man kind to map out tho the deeps with their mountain mountains valleys and oven even streams tho ile mighty cavon caves of tho the ocean havo been boon to some extent cd and tho the very cry creatures that d droll all in them havo have become newly familiar to science if it tho the ocean water should bo be affected D b a miraculously low tide 90 as tie to link cink by ae as much as tho the height of the washington monument an astonishing alteration would bo be made la in the of tho the north american continent tho the line of the breakers receding go far that now new city would lind tind itself booro than miloe miles from the aca us as would boston likewise and Sa savannah Nannah go it would bo be discovered that thu the present of tho the lo Is not noti i a edge of the continent at all but that this edge Is 1 away out to tho the eastward so that if it formed tho the coast tills this country would bo be enough biggor to inako make dooin for four or fi a now tt itea on oa the pacific sido side it ie is quito quite otherwise there the continence continents tinen ts edge la Is marked pretty closely by tho the shore line and so abrupt and precipitous ie Is it that enormous depolia lire tire found close to land along the coast great submarine ine valleys allos ling along tho the very margin of terra term firms in starting arting et to tako take a walk over tho tile floor of the ocean perhaps it would be aa as much tun ci wt any other plan to set out from sun u francisco for a view of the bed for thy tile first teeny nino miles of the journey westward you will proceed over a level plateau formed of detritus which tho the rh river er water has coat cast out through the golden guto for a thoai thousand and centuries tho the depth delith of tho the sea for that la Is only about feet but at the end d of it tho the bottom drops suddenly to t two a and a half miles to get to tho the foot of this tremendous hill is likely to bo be diff difficult icuM inasmuch as you must climb from a greater relative altitude and by a it much muth steeper incline than that b which the traveler passes pases from the summit of the sierra nevada non ads range to tho the valley of california below nt at sacramento aa As 3 on ou go down you will experience a cold that becomes ste itei edily dlly more inton interi o e and the pressure of bf water from above which makes maker tho the cold grasps you with such a mighty grip that you would bo be crushed to a jelly in its fluid embrace were 3 a ou not protect 01 oj by an armor of intense resisting pow er AVit without bout such an equipment amwel as well as a store of strands air and a powerful light there is no use in your attempting to explore the oceans abysses abys see at the trot of tho the g cut cat ity ou in III find a seemingly interminable plain like a pr peairl airl it is tho the beginning of tho the floor of tho the pacific racine which ia is tor for tho the most part so wonderfully wonder hilly lei level at that you could drive over oyer it nith ith the utmost comfort in a light carriage the water all taken awn As 3 a ou proceed westward west though tho the elope slope is so smooth and gradual that 3 a ou do not notice it it tho the bottom d scendy at a slight incline until at ut 50 miles from the land the surface of the ocean ie Is three miles and a quarter above a 3 our head this is the normal depth of tho the ast pacific plateau you tm travel at over it for another miles when 3 ou come upon a gigantic mountain which towers 1 up from the ocean foor ioor to the height of nearly three miles its existence has univ been ascertained by a because u half a milo mile of seawater sea water flows over it beyond tho the mountain is tho the plinn pk tin again it is a dead lead level of shall ooze oom euch such aa as covers pretty much all ali the tho oceans floor tho ile mixture sometimes greenish and sometimes brownish ie is p portly detritus washed by rivers from the land end and partly shells hells of almost microscopic animals called which fall upon the bottom in a gentle and contant on out rain all th tho chall echalk bedin the world aro formed of such shell and the very verv stones of which tho the fi of EC eg pt are a built are composed alcoa wholly efthem of them there ie a certain monotony about the aspect of chiu ihlma s in cheso enormous depths depth ono may well bt bf oppre shod too b bj tho the lute silence which meigno frightful storms may bo be razing on tho the surface but here hare three milea miles and a hala ha r beneath all is as still as death and not even alio murmur of a wavelet wa olet reaches the cur car E ever c where if you close bour our lantern la is tho the darkness of absolute block black a liquid darkness dar kne that makes iteld felt by a pressure of t to 0 tone to the square inch the ile water ie Is so ro cold ai to bo be very verv little freezing point on every slue side spreads Bp read a desert of inter alva 10 lo ile extent fk filLi ful in 10 dosola tica with not a blado blade or sprout of any am ta in fact but the cholly ooze into which boar foot sinks u isome t 1 A i hanco there I 1 0 la an and but slot of ire w cicil thoy fecal you anil love now isolated clo title to asia ln 1 a nar liked instead y 0 it gro mile orne ito a amondous raon doua i laing pr 44 aisla 1 from tho the bottom v m hose lop tops i tho the island le landt thence alloa directly bouth und and find your golf entering ft it portion of tho the occa plain that Is L comparach com cly mountain ou oua of tho the hills are tall enough to out of tho water thua thus makins making islands largo and email small you are exploring tho the aub gub collar of pat lt eo so to speak and you find ns as oi ou travel ard past the bo cloty navigator friendly nal und and othoe groppi a that the bloor you iro allying on still pro series its depth and ova iress save where in spots mist ast havo have boon uplifted of and corm lino formation fonn atlon bearing weli garoupa na RS thoo in li the isha tiso of sug a r loaf clava eions high enough to supply habItat habitations ious for man and find incidental material for missionary it ie Is believed boll ovod by geologists that once upon a it timo time there were many more blonde islands in tho the southern pacific than thoro there fire now und nd that they have disappeared owing to volcanic a a 1 ency fatato in III that portion 0 of f tho the haorld would not appear tu tv bo be hoi hot 1 or on tho the moat most secure tu ans it Is cilwa 3 going down or coming up a mo amounda unda ono one day boing being a holy hole in tho the groans tho the next or ico too versa it wae as only half a dozen years ngo ago that a peak tu ano ri miles high rolla in a dinglo night nigh t a bojt a t of tho the part of tho the of sunda between java and sumatra |
