Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — A Subterranean River. [ARTICLE]

A Subterranean River.

Rev. Dr. Foster of Boston in his weekly letter to the Chicago Advance, states that there are reasons'to suppose that there is an underground river about a hundred foet below ground, running through Massachusetts and Providence and emptying into the sea. It is supposed that this river, whose waters are ice-cold and. exceeding pure, starts from the White Mountain region and finds its way through au old ravine dug by a glacier, then tilled with gravel and covered over with hard-pan. Water of that ice-cold quality and of great abundance has been found at about the same depth in Providence, in Foxboro and two miles west of Lowell. In two of these cases it is certain that there is a cuvity nearly a hundred feet below ground, through which the water flows, for in each case the drill dropped from ten to twenty feet after reaching water and theu struck a ledge. If there is this stream of pure cold water traversing our Commonwealth, it will be hard to ovor-estimate its value to Eastern Massachusetts in years to come, to whom the problem of a pure water supply is one of great difficulty, but of vital importance. Rialto, by Sctinel Wilkes, dam Cricket, by Cuyler, is expected to pace faster than 2.20 this year.