Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — The Atlantic Laid Bare. [ARTICLE]

The Atlantic Laid Bare.

Figuratively speaking, the bed of the Atlantic Ocean has at last been laid bare. English, American, German, and French sounding expeditions have mapped every section of the ooze that lies at the bottom of the great watery waste. According to these maps and diagrams the Atlantic is a huge water-trough of varying depths, extending from pole to pole. Here and there rocky peaks, like that of Teneriffe, or huge mountains of sand, like the Bank of Newfoundland reach up to or beyond the surface. Between Ireland and Newfoundland there exists a remarkable submarine plain, always referred to as “the telegraphic plateau," which is evidently a continuation of the great watershed, which, between latitudes 40 and 50 degrees north, surrounds the earth and divides the waters flowing south from those flowing north. !