Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — A Natural Curiosity. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Curiosity.

In the great valley betyveen the North and South mountains, in Pennsylvania, commonly called the Eastern ridge, a well was, dug some years since in Franklin, and another in Cumberland county, thirty or forty miles from the former, which led to a discovery affording a subject for interesting speculation. After proceeding in each instance to a depth of abo.ut thirty-six feet, the bottom of these wells gave way (but fortunately when the workmen had retired) and a torrent of water rushed up. A lead was sunk with fifty fathoms of line without finding the least obstruction. They remain at this time untouched and of unknown depth. The presumption is, there is a subterranean lake in that quarter, and how far it extends under the base of the vast primitive mountains, situated between the Susquehanna and Pittsburgh, will never be ascertained, unless by some terrible convulsion of nature they should be precipitated in the tremendous abyss.