Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-01-02
Is 1t a Volume Of Water Rushing
Out Of the Earth2
A New Theory About the Won
derful River in the Ocean.

These huge cavities, originally
formed when those portions of the
earth's crust were in a melted state,
and results of the unequal cooling of
different materials of the composition
and of other causes, if so situated may
form the basis of very interesting
theories. For instance, they may be
generally filed with water, and there
may exist great underground inland
seas.
The source of the Gulf Stream has
always been a disputed question. This
grea. body of warm water is nothing
more or less than stream or river in
the ocean, flowing through the cold
water. 1t was formerly thought that
this stream was formed i'll the equato-
rial regions, where the surface waterof |
the ocean was heated by the sun, and
then began to flow northwmd.
But of late theory has been adj
vanccd that This stream, which is justas
well defined off the Florida coast as OIL
the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, is
stream of hot water which issues from
an orifice at the bottom of the sea
somewhere among the Florida reefs
Recently the photographic oih OF
the Navy Department has been ell
deayoring to determine if it is so, ana
efforts have been made to find this ORR
flee by the use of the sounding line.
But if a stream of hot waer of the
/ proportions of the Gulf Stream does
issue from an oriGcc in the bed OF the
sea then what mighty boiler there
must be somewhere in the bowels oi
tic earth, and Whenever these cnor-
nous fires burn through the rocky
vail Sd the Waer rush
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ing IS Aonsfdnn. eSjhyertcd Into stcaI
no wonder If explosions ensuc tha
cause the overlying waters and tn
earths crust to vibrate in great wave
which we call earthquakes.
Very probably tbs is the case, fo
abundant evidence of these explosion
: caused by the contact of fire an
water when the eartl's crust was firs
commencing to form is evcrywher
apparent, only the effect of atmoi
phcric changes has covered the hare
ness of the face of the earth with
kindly soil, and vegetation has clothc
this soil with the smile of life. Br
wherever the mountains are we Sc
the evidences Of these steam cxplC
sions
There is one great rock in the losC
mite Valley several thousands of fee
high, standing alone. from which som
great covusion of nature has spit o
a huge fragment and hured in no on
knows whittier. But in the course q
time the earth's crust has grow
thicker, and at present W. know little
these subtcrranean explosions, cXceF
when the solid earth trcmblcs III a
earthquake. Or perhaps it is the fol
nation of steam that raises the Law
to the mouth of the volcano and force
it upon the plain, until another wall h0
been built between the fire aud til
water in the depths of the eartl
Then, too, the hot springs may shoN
the existence of subterraneous waters
There are numerous other peculia
circumstances which seem to be eA
planned by this theory. For instance
it is said that a great storm Oh the A
lantic coast of the United States is a,
companied by action of the geysers o
the Yellowstone Valley, and this migl
be explained if it could be proved tia
a subterraneous water way from ocea
to springs existed.
1t may be that this sub-water prC
tects the surfac1 of the earth from
great heat. However, if the earth /
not ''solio," as we generally suppose
but permeated with seas, channels an
passageways of various kinds, it give
a reasonable basis for some of I'll
jules Verne's stories, and probably eA
plains many occurrences that At pre-
ent are only mysteries. 1t remain
for the future submarine vessel
solve this problem. Boston Journa