Eureka Reporter | 1903-04-17 | Page 7 | The Floor of the Facine Ocean

TI 1 0 floor of tl ti e pacific oc oceal if the ii ahei atei s ot of tl tie e pacific could 1 I be drained there aull be revelled bevelled revel led a last stretch ot of comprising compi ising plateaus plateau gibat alleys for which no parallels exist on the he lind surface lofty mountains ties bes de which the Hi himalaya malay and the andes would look like hillocks and tremendous tiemen dous hoi hol lows oi 01 basi basus is only to be compiled with those on the face of the moon wh ie thel P are great mountains and huge bihms or deeps the pla areas are by far the most exten she relatively hely speaking the floor of 0 the pacific as now at last revealed leve aled on the plateau aleas is level are undulations and depressions depre but the general iaea 11 ea Is about the same depth below the So soundings s 1 a moan mein doph 0 or from 2 00 to fathoms in spots there is a mei i depth of flom to 2400 deebel spots show from 2800 to 2900 fathoms leslie e monthly