Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — The Floor of the Ocean. [ARTICLE]

The Floor of the Ocean.

If the Atlantic ocean were drained, there would be found a range of mountains running about through the middle of it, and anothem range from Newfoundland to Iceland. The tops of these -are two miles below a sailing ship, and the valleys between are in some place fifteen miles deep. The menntains are whitened for miles by tiny creamy shells, while sie deep places are red with color.