Intermountain Catholic | 1902-11-15 | Page 5 | World's Greatest Geographic Feature

' World's Greatest Geographic Feature. (National Geographical Magazine.) The greatest by far among great geographic geo-graphic features is the Pacific basin. If all the continents and Islands forming form-ing the face of the earth were Joined in one great continent, its extent would scarce equal that of the great ocean, and if the mass of all the lands of the globe above the sea level were poured into the Pacific barely more than an eighth of the basin would be filled. Three-fourths of our world surface is water; a full third of this vast expanse, or a quarter of the superfices of the planet, is that of the great ocean, while its abysses are of such depth that a full half of the water of the earth is gathered gath-ered into its basin. In every view-the Pacific is vast, so vast as to tax if not outpass our powers of contemplation.