The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-05-22
LAKE SUPERIOR.
Interesting FAats About the Largest Booy
OF Fresh Water In the world
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Interesting FAeta About the Largest BoSy q
OF Fresh Water In the Worid-
THE Great Lakes" is the title of
an article in ST. Nicholas. written by I
W $. Harwood. Concerning Lake
Superior, Mr.. Harwood says:
II is, to begin with. the largest
body of fresh water in the world.
1t Is water of wonderful purity
which it holds, too. and some time
and in the not very distant future
either-the people who live in the
large cities to the west and south
will come TO this lake TO get the wa
ter for their homes II will not be
so remarkable an engineering feat
to pipe the water of this lake, puro
and sparkling and fresh from it's
. cold depths. to these cities which are
now struggling with the question Of
their water supply and meeting all
sorts of difficulties in their efforts to
I get water fit to drink.
All down through this 1000 feet
of blue there IL a peculiar coidness
AT the very most, the temperature
varies through winter and summer
not more than six degrees Winter
and summer this great lake never
changes to any appreciable extent.
so that if you dip your finger tips in
the blue surface on a day in July, OF
IL you test it some day in early win
ter when you have been out on some
belated, ice mailed fishing smack, or
when you have gone out TO watch
the fishermen spearing their sup
plies through the thick ice in mid
January, you will find but trifiing
difference in the temperature. Away
down at the bottom, too. there il bot
littl" variation in the temperature,
for il stands at nearly 40 degrees 4
at the bottom and varies from 20 tc
46 degrees. winter and summer. al
the surface. The other lakes, though
, cold, are not in this respect like Su
!, perior.
The whole bottom of the lake ii
believed 10 be strong rock BASIN
though II would seem that there
must be great springs at the bottom
: to help keep up the enormous vol
ume of water. From the north ther'
is II large amount of water pouring
into the lake year in and year out
the swift rushing, narrow banke,
: Nipigon and other streams furnish
: ing no small part of the supply
These streams in a large measur
!, make up the loss from the surface
! One of the old lake captains,
bronzed, kindly faced man who ha
u been for 35 years on the lakes an
had faced death many a time in tn
y frightful storms which sometime
: sweep across these beautiful bodie
of water, told me. as we were pas,
I ing along one day near the mort
coast Of Superior. with the heaC
- lands and inlets and glossy gree
70 bluffs of that most picturesque shor
u in full view, that the theory that th
a lake was slowly going down in siz
~ was true. He maintained that b
1I could tell from certain landmark
10 along the shores, with which he
IL as familiar as he would BE- with ii
streets of his old Scottish birthplace
10 that the lake was slowly. very SLOW
" ly, but surely receding Howeve
~ it will be some centuries yet befol
:, there will be any appreciable lessei
IA ing of the great lakes. so that "
9n need not he concerned.
- Strange as it may seem, the lal
Z las tides, too-well defined tides
~ discovered in 1850. IL 10 what
e1 called a self registering tide. with
y regular fiux and refiux wave, cause
IH so the scientific men say, by the 81
TO and moon. The average rise Al
NO fall every - hours is one fourtee
on hundredth of foot. The maximu
ISL tide at new and full moon IL OF
'~ twenty eight-bundredth of foot.