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Show May Be Deepest River in World -; Scientific Survey Asked for Natural Natu-ral Phenomena on Upper Ottawa Ot-tawa River In Canada. Toronto. The Canadian government has been asked to make a special survey sur-vey which It Is expected will prove by scientific measures that Cunada 1b the possessor of the deepest river In the world. Hidden beneath the amber waters of the Upper Ottawa river Is one of nature's na-ture's most curious phenomena, rivaling rival-ing In Its way the Grand Canyon of Colorado, the Natural Bridge of Virginia, Vir-ginia, the Falls of Niagara or Zambesi. It Is a gigantic chasm cleft In the surface of the earth In a period which must have approached the earliest In the earth's history, for the bed reveal sandstone of the Palaezolc age. If the Ottawa river were to dry up, the chasm with Its walls 0,000 or T.000 feet high would eclipse the wonder of Colorado. As It Is, the Deep River reach of the Ottawa claims the distinction, dis-tinction, which It Is hoped will soon be scientifically confirmed, of being the deepest river In the world. 5,000 Fset and "No Bottom." In several places over a distance of 23 miles, 5,000 feet of tow boat lines have failed to given an anchorage. By comparison the Great Lakes are but duck ponds and the famous fiords of Norway and the East American Atlantic coast are quite eclipsed. Lake Erie has a depth of only 272 feet. Lake Ontario Is not much better with 738 feet. Lake Michigan has 789 feet. Lake Superior, the deepest of all the great Inland seas, Is only 1,007 feet, or about one-fifth as deep as the Deep River reach will probably prove to be. One of the East Atlantic fiords shows 3,000 feet, and the Sog-nle Sog-nle fiord of Scandlnnvla Is 4,000 feet Deep River reach of the Ottawa Is north of Pembroke and Is traversed by serviceable steamers. The southern south-ern stretch of It Is found Identified on most maps as Upper Alumette lake. Tills part of the river course Is dotted with hundreds of beautiful Islands furnishing summer homes for urban residents. They are at this point of the northwest north-west edge of civilization. Toward the North Star and Hudson bay lies only wilderness broken only at one midway point by the National Transcontinental railway, which with Its still rusting rust-ing rails will one day give Canada depth as well as breadth. To t lie southwest lie the Plains of Petawawa, famous as a military training ground, particularly for artillery during the war. Farther on you enier (fiscal! lake (locally called "Weese"), surrounded by a series or the most plcturesqm mountain peaks to be found anywher In the whole I.aurentlaii range. Pros, pert succeeds prospect In a never ending panorama, while the tang of the wilds Is like wine in the veins. A point culled I e Jo A'-hlm Is tlif tipper limit of tlif Great Cluism. Iters the river makes a right angled turn, nii'l U ti'iiii.-foniicd from a madly surging surg-ing rapids to the restful, slow moving deep current of the Grand Chasm |