The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-08
THE DEPTHS OF LAKES
 AND SEAS-LOCHS
 DEEPER THAN SEAS

The traveller who has sailed from Hamburg to Hull. Dublin to Liver pool, or from Cherbonrg to Plymol and later finds himself paddling in a canoe on the unruffed surface of a Highland loeh, seldom realizes that he may have below him a. far greater depth of water than when he travers- ed the North Sea, Irish Sea, or the English Channel. When we look at a map of the British Isles andN note the TO miles between Wales and Ireland the 100 miles from Devonshfre to Brittany, and the 400 miles that sep arate England from Germany, it seems hardly; credible that the mar Lomond, 1och Fay, Loch- Ness, and Loch Morar are all more than twice the depth of the wide. outlying seas.
 The average depth of the North Sea is 288 feet Towards the north it deepens considerably. The deepest part of the Irish Sea is about 300 feet The English Channel south of Ply mouth has a depth of 264 feet. Where the. Louisitania lies, a few miles southwest of the Old Head of Kinsale the depth will be about 300 feet When the great vessel sank one end probably rested on the ground before the other disappeared and that would account for the sma1lness of the suc- ktion that followed her engulfment. If the vessel were standing on end at the place where she now lies nearly two thirds of her would be sticking out of the water.
 Rem e1nbering that the sea-depths about Great Britain range from 1SO feet to 300 feet (witf1 the exception of one or two holes off the west of Scot land), let us beake ourselves to the bonnie banks of one of the most beautiful of the Scottish Iochs. Lohh Lomond owes much of it's fame to the adventures of Rob Roy and Bail1e Nicoll Jarvie, but it has another inter est often unsuspected by the passing tourist, and that is the great depth. Just at the foot of lofty Ben Lomond, where the loch is less than a mile wide, the depth is no less than 6S0 feet. As the loch is no more than 23, feet above the level of the sea-, it's deepest part must be twice as low in the earth.s crust as the lowest part of the adjacent seas. If St. PauPs Ca thedra1 were at the bottom of Loch Lomond it would be entirely out of sight. If the silI-fated Lusitania, had been set on end in it's deepest part she would have shown nearly one-fourth of her length above thew ater, as that gigantic vessel was 800 feet long. If she had been planted perpendfcularly in Loch Ness, where the depth is greater by 13O feet, the leviathan would have been able to show her nose, and no more.
 For long time Loch Ness had the reputation of being the deepest of the Scottish lochs, but in 1879 J. Y. Bu- chanan. F. R. s.. showed that Loch Morar was deeper by several hundred feet than Loch Ness. If we coulo ux the Lusitanta erect in the depths or Loch Morar we should lost sight of her altogether. Even if the Scott monument (2OO feet) could be stuck above her bow, the lightning rod of the monument would not fret the sur face of that abysma1 Ioch.
 The soundings of Loch Morar reveal a depth of 1.017 feet, which is almost exactly the same as that of Lake Geneva, but the bottom Lage Geneva is higher than the surface of Loch Morar.
 The Eiffel Tower itself would be completely submerged in this high land loch, and if C1eopatra's Needle (7O feet) stood on it half of it would be out of sight.
 Let anyone stand in St. PauFs churchyard and let his eye travel up the steps, columns, dome, and ball to the golden cross. ThenAlet him inn agine another St. Pauls above that again: steps, columns, dome, ball. and cross. On top of thst again let him, in imagination, set the London monu-