New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

~ AVY JONES'S locker is no longer
buried in fathomless mystery. The
IL United States government has an
nounced discoveries in studying the
hitherto unknown realms of the ocean floor
that have literally brought the bottom of the
sea to the top.
This newly discovered country is filled with
mountains that rival Mount Everest and dim
the gories of Mont Blanc, with table lands
that dwarf the plateaus of the continents,
with canyons in which the Colorado canyon
would be lost, and of creative formation on a
scale of grandeur that challenges the imagi-
nation.
Mariners may now learn the landmarks that
lie under the sea they know the landmarks
that border it. A ships course can be set
much as an aviator guides his plane-by phys
ical details like mountains and plains. After
ail submarine lands are amazingly like the
land we know above the water.
Over three-ffths of the globe is covered
with water Like the continents above them,
these millions Of square miles that make the
oceans floor are traversed by mountain
ranges, towering above great plains, vast
acres Of plateaux and abysmal canyons The
ical characteristics of these submarine coun-
tries are nagniied many fold in comparison
With the duplicate features of the lands we
Know, mountains are higher, gorges deeper
plains more immense and rivers more mighty
10 get more practical description Of the
wonders the waves have been hiding imagine
the oceans drained of all their water and go
on world tour of subterranean lands, from
tne bottom looking up. The "blue book for
sea-noor travel Is most complete on the Al
lan'lc' So we might see that first, although
tae Pacific offers more grandeur in mountain
scenery.
we will start from the eastern coast of
Newfoundland because by going that way we
can take short cut across the plains to the
a-Afiantic ridge. This great plateau sys-
- composed Of three links, is thousands Of
miles longer than any we have known before.
IT takes us through the heart of the country
Ayres.
:, ~ we were to attempt to make crossing
SiecV from New York to this stupendous ele-
'auon we would have tedious trip all the
way around the Sigsbee Deep, great valley
1@' makes bed more than three miles deep
.Os powerful subterranean river and its
s~a'arles. Then not far away there is the
s4nm Deep, small in comparison to Sigsbee,
~ vast enough to lose the Yosemite valley
among its gorges.
,s as the Newfoundland coast begins to rise
su'ia US we drive down long sandy slope
s-upy with gravel. A dense brush of sea-
~ W makes our first quarter of a mile diff
~ ~ tolng and then as we coast on down the
Siae the plants grow more scragglv until
ss'aton disappears entirely. But shells are
.a!"nere, and so fragile and delicataly tint
aaE we are tempted to stop and gather
s OF the rarer ones. Nearing the plains.
~ sne largest shells are strewn in our way
ai'er while there is only red-clay ooze.
i sue plains, about two and half miles be-
- 'he land we recently left. are white with
Veeans boarding of bones-a vast grave
NV Nv lor millions of years. 1t is only the
,ss esl remnants like the tips of sharks teeth
:. .he earbones of whales that the sea has
!. SissoiVed. Fragments Of skeletons from
u'mcus creatures long extinct are found
'e'ed among the bones Of living species.
- ahead the walls of .he mid-Atlantic
~ se rise before US to the east, AS wa draw
..s we can distinguish the red and green
Il, !. 0eA blue of the different clays that make
a'er steep climb of about twenty miles
@Vei OF the Dolphin Plateau is gained and