Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-10-03 | Page 7 | Dust on Ocean's Bed

Dust on Ocean's Bed. To an enormous extent the bed of the ocean is covered with lava and pumice stone, says tlie Family Herald. Her-ald. Still more remarkable is it to find the floor of the ocean covered in many parts with the dust of meteorites. These bodies whirl about in Ihe heavens heav-ens like miniature comets, anil are for the most part broken into innumerable in-numerable fragments. We are all familiar fa-miliar with these heavenly visitants as shooting stars; but it has been only lately discovered thnt this cosmic dust forms layers at Ihe bottom of the deepest deep-est seas. Between Honolulu and Tahiti, Ta-hiti, at a depth of 2. :!."() fathoms over two 'miles and a half a vast layer of this material exists. Falling upon land this impalpable dust is indistinguishable; indistinguisha-ble; but, accumulating for centuries in the sea depths. It forms a wondrous story of the continuous bombardment of this planet by cometary bodies.