Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — A Lake 2,000 Feet Deep. [ARTICLE]

A Lake 2,000 Feet Deep.

SaeksonViUe (Ore.) Record. ; Several of our citizens returned last week horn the Great Sun ken Lake, kit* uated in the Cascade Mountains, apont seventy five miles north-east from Jackson vflfft This lake rivals the faiflotfs Vsliey 'of Sinbad the Sailor. It is thought to average fi.dOQ feet down to water all arOtind/ The depth pf the water is unknown and Isa surface ,te smooth audf unruffled, as It f* W Tw WdoW the surface of the mouutafns that air ttirrewts do not affect it. . Its. length is eslimatsdltt twelve or fifteen miles, and i s width tefl est tWelv*. There s a mountain in the cefltor baying trets upon it. It lies stiM, silent/ .and in ’the • bosom of the ’iVerlavtlog hills, like a huge well scooped ode by the hands of the giant, fenii of tbfl toowotours in the unno wn egos gone try, and atpundit the primeval forests watch ana- W*W Sftf keeping. Th?. N rifle into the Water several timeß at an angteof forty-five' degrees, and v ere banstracfSfeVaTgr.. dreartfig, m ft h vonclieff W bf otoT most felfabfe citizens. The latte is caSr» tainty arflObt remarfeab'e edrlovlty.