Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — Mysterious Submarine Currents. [ARTICLE]

Mysterious Submarine Currents.

Ldttl® Shuswap lake is stated to hart * flat bottom, with a depth varying from fifty-eight to seventy-four fbai measured from the mean high watef mark. The deepest water found in tin Great Shuswap was 555 feet, about air Miles northward from Cinnemouser narrows, in Seymour arm, though the whole lake is notably deep. Adam’a lake, however, exceeds either »f th® Bhuswaps, as its average depth for twenty miles is upward of 1,100 feet, >.nd at one point a depth of 1,900 seek was recorded. In the northwest cor tier of this lake, at a depth of 1,118 feel, the purpose of the scientific explorer® wes defeated by the presence of mysterious currents, which played with the soutding line some giant fish, and prevented any measurement beiny taken. It Is a complete mystery how the currents could have been created at this depth, and scientific curiosity will no doubt Impel either public or private enterprise to send a second expedition to the scene this summer to endeavor to solve the riddle. As the height of the surface of this lake is 1,380 feet above the sea level, Its present bed, therefore, is only 190 feet above the sea, although distas 200 miles from the nearest part of the ocean. Dr. Dawson and hia associates believe that the beds of some of the mountain lakes In the Region are many feet lower than the sea level.—Vaneor rar World.