Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-29
WHOLE NO. 1O,413.
MYSTERY OF THE LAKES,
Subterrauean River between Superior and
Ontario.

Ontario.
If you are ever drowned in Cayuga
lake, your friends need not 80 to the OK
pcnSc or trouble of dragging the lake for
your body, for they'd never find it."
This was the cheerful remark made bv I.
resident of Ithaca, who has a taste for geo
logical research, and who has INDUCED il
during the past few years TO inyestigStins.
the bottom of Cayuga lake
" From all have been able TO discover "
said he, " the bottom of Cayuga lake is u
series OF large openings and cavities many
OF them resembling the CraterS of extinct
volcanoes. Some of these are hundred
teet IN diameter, and are surrounded by
raised rms ike the sides Of a milk nan
These cratcrS, as | believe they are. lie al
different depths, or, rather. are of different
nights. Their depth | have never been
able 10 sound, although | have lowered
many hundred feet of plumb line into
them. They are undoubtedly faJhomlesS
ana nave become r6cCptaclcS of the bodies
OF the hundreds Of persons who are known
to have been drowned in the lake during
the past half century, and of the undoubtcd
thousands of people killed in the fierce bat
ties that were frequently waged on the
shores ot the lake between hostile tribes Of
the original people years before the white
"an appeared on this continent
j. was i'm Cayuga lake that the wretch
Eu!'uu lowered the bodies of his wife and
child, luyloscd IN a chest, after he ha., mur
dc"cd JHcu, twenty years ago. They weeks
that were >lcut in dragging for IN. chest
Was fIHe thrown away, iu- 10 had sunk inf.
'.,,i ~ W. -" y, 'iI'a1 NV'u volcanoes,
-. H. ,''' S..,N'"A Ne' IS mo- doubt
'J''''''s "I'"' '' ''' '''l"h!tNN depths
~ 81, ~ ','''s q, an" smoke ami
"'ut, NtI' ne o'i"'o"'ii Clements
W ''l'u' I'''{ N,'"S '''N'en -'" ANA 300
I'"'' ".S" '""N!'" lH 'ayusA
I'm, =" lC,"''. 'i'' '''u'l'S "i whom Tine
S'd.'l. .uHl- i''i a.'" ui:S nav" He,h used IN
Sy'', i'ua'S' I"' ''i yam. IL 70 Were posi-
~, p'y '"' one ,y maxi i''e rounds OF TINS
1"Nv ''"'V--' ."e ncG' h' would, ncyoud
ocN"Hd uu'"n'r 'aFGfnN where thousands
OF S'iil'IhS NkcicIouS have found their OWE
S'l'''tItt'. S"''yr'ailc'n SAJ2coubS without
th"- water 'aAth irom depth ot 500 feet
III 'aNuSa laNe-NhEh must have been
from one HI tuCNe taNluts-lS strongly
charge" WIN SulphCretted hydrogen, nitro
gen ta'poin' aC'd, amt the rarhouates OF
'Iiu', i''2'i, ,pda ana maEntSla.
."NUS% '.Nc mas a'so a mysterious uGal
iinn'"H. j. irrcgul&r IN ITS occurrence,
pu' very "''ldcd. ihc phenomenon has
u'eh hhoNi 10 appear twice . year, and
'heh TWO years or more nave elapsed he
tween rs periods The water frequently
ivccurS my itet. lhc Cub lS gradual, but
Tue HOOD ude comes ~ with considerable
lQrte ana raWhty. IhiS phenomenon is
ai>o noticed on Seneca lake, which is III
Nided ltpm layuga hy the high Seneca
county mis- me surface oil Seneca lake
IS SINt} lcSt above That oi tayuSa lake, but
pcleNc lIs hcd 'ot lhe same remarkable
character. seneca lake rises and falls rs
lntlCh rs tArtc lt't during the Tune OF lis
uuaI cllnmouoh, winch Is also irregular III
us PERIODS.
pelleVe there IS Suhterranean river
running rom LAKE superior through Lakes
huron ana MlchlSdn. under Lake Erie.
ana enptying INTO Lake Ontario. There is
no olner way III Whlch 10 explain certain
mysteries connected with our great lakes
me surface of Lake Superior IS about $50
iccI ABOVE lle uue' Whlle IT'S bed Is 2uO feet
oclO" the 'iIai lSNet' LAKE huron : surf
ace ls MY Ieet beloW that OF SupcilorS,
ana l's pea Is ABOUT on leIel with Superl-
OF ) Inc surface OF Lake Michigan Is 800
leet lower thah Lake hurunS :, and Its bed
IS sunk q corresponding distance TO the
IeNei OF the other two lakes. Lake Eric.S
surface IS nearly as high as Lake Michi-
gan ;, Deilg 900 ABOVE the tide, but ITS bed
IS aiSo ABOVE nae, heing 800 feet higher
than the ocean level, consequently Hsbed
IS Z9U leet h!gher thah those OF the lakes
above II: Lake ontaro'S surface is the
lowest OF all the great lakes, helng less than
2VV leeI ABOVE uue, put ITS bed is 80 feet