Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-11-27
Marvels OF the Ocean


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Much Of the finest scenery on the
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Iy all the Cadets are interested.
A Baltimore Band win furnish the
music % which many fset have been
timed and tuned by . series Of In
formal dances which have been held
On Saturday evenings q the hall.
s Tt play reoently given at Me-
siAniesvills was repeated here On
Saturday evening with pronounced
success and those participating.
merit much praise. The Amateur
Thcatrical Club Of the school will
shortly present IN attractive play
Maids and Match makers.
We are sure the acting win be as
usual, up 20 the standard.
Miss Estelle Perry Of Kensington,
I'D. has been visiting her brother
@ the home Of Pro-. Coad. Daring
her stay she made warm friends
among those with whom she was
associated, and left many admirers
it bodily from the depths of the
ocean. and set il gingerly in the
middlel Of Hyde Park, storm, heat,
and frost would cause it to crumble
to pieces, in, geologically speaking,
mo time at all" Something of a
similar kind we have, It is true, in
the far-famed ''Steeple Rock" of the
Garden Of the Gods in America,
but this is barely as many hundred
feet high as the other is thousands.
Men speak admiringly of the
Grand Canon OF the Colorado River,
carved thousands of feet deep within
the earth s crust by tie ceaseless
fretting of the tortured stream dur
ing the countless ages.
And with reason Nothing like
it exists elsewhere on any of the land
masses OF our planet; nor was il sup
posed until comparatively recently
that its terrific precipices, it's tow
eriDg crags. orits profound abysses,
could, by any possibility, have their
counterpart anywhere in the un-
charted bed of the ocean.
Then, one day, a government sur
veying vessel engaged in making
soundings of the coast of Japan,
stumbled across an apparently faith
omless submarine abyss. More than
$4,000 feet of line were run off the
reel without finding the bottom, and
the, captain, baffied and beaten, had
to put back to Yokohama for addi-
tional tackle.
. Subsequent Investigation showed
chat the discovery was even more
remarkable than had been at first
thought. The ocean-filled gorge, or
canon, proved TO extend from oppo-
site Toxic to almost within hailing
distance OF Cape Lopatka, or, rough
ly, 1000 miles and it's average
depth, reckoning as from the imme-
diately adjoining ocean floor to west
wards was found to be slightly over
Is, 900 feet.
Int this tremendous trench, the
famous Colorado Canon, which is
some 200 miles long, with an aver
age depth of 5000 feet. could, oi
course. be packed many times over.
Moreover, it was noted as remark
able fact. that whereas, for many
miles at stretch, both the walls in
closing the Grand Canon are more
or less slipping in character, the
western side of the Pacific gorge, at
all events, drops almost perpendic-
ularly from the sea floor upholdine
the Kurile Islands. 1t is as though
these isolated land masses had been
thrown mp at some remote epoch by
amphibious Titans working from the
westward, the thousand-mile-lo long
ditch representing, Of course, the
area of excavation.
Curiously enough, similar abnor-
NAL "deeps" in the bed of the sea,
of q circular character, are not in.
frequently found closely adjacent
to correspondingly abnormal eleya.
tions. A typical instance is afford.
ed by the Tokelau group OF islands,
from the northwestern extremity oI
which one might almost step into q
crater-like pit, measuring in depth
between four and FIVE thousand faith.
oms, and having an area almost ex-
actly equal to the islands in ques
tion. ~
Multiply by millions OF billions 9
child's sand hole dug on Margat,
beach, and the sand heaps excavat
ed therefrom, and you have the To
kelau depression. Imagine, IL yo,
can, a man standing in the middl,
of the latter, with the Pacific draines
Of its waters; he would find himsel
in pit, the almost perpendiculal
walls of which would be over thre'
miles high, reckoning from the foo
of the ocean; while above him wonls