WORLD'S DEEPEST RIVER.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1400, 2 June 1923, Page 7

WORLD'S DEEPEST RIVER.

CHASM 5000 FEET DEEP. The Canadian Government has been asked to make a special survey which it is expected will prove by scientific measurements that Canada, among Its other distinctions, has the deepest river in the world. » Hidden beneath the amber waters of the upper Ottawa river is one of Nature's most curious phenomena, rivalling in its way the Grand Canyon of Colorado, the National Bridge of Virginia, the Falls of Niagara or the Zambesi. It is a gigantic chasm cleft in the surface of the earth in a period which must have approached the earliest in the earth's history, for its bed reveals sandstone of the Palaezoic Age< If the Ottawa river were to dry up the chasm with its walls 0000 feet or 7000 feet high would eclipse the wonder of Colorado. As it is, the Deep River Reach of the Ottawa claims the distinction, which it is hoped will soon be scientifically confirmed, of being the deepest river in the world. In several places over a distance of 23 miles r>ooo feet of towering boat lines have failed to give an anchor-

By comparison the Great Lakes are but duck ponds, and the famous fiords of Norway and the Fast American Atlantic Coast are quite eclipsed. Lake Brie has a depth of only 272 feet. Lake Michigan has 189 feel. Lake Superior, the deepesl of all the great inland seas, is only 1007 feet, or about onefifth as deep ;ts the Deep River Reach will probably prove to be. One of the Fast Atlantic fiords shows WOO feet, and the Sogne Fiord of Scandinavia is 4000 feet. Deep River [{each of the Ottawa is north of Pembroke, and is traversed by serviceable steamers. The southern stretch of it is found identified on most maps its Upper Aulmette Lake. This part of the river course is dotted with hundreds of beautiful islands furnishing summer houses for urban residents. A point called Dcs Jo Achim is the upper limit of the Great Chasm. Here the river makes a right angled turn, and is transformed from madly surging rapids to the restful slow moving deep current of the Grand Chasm.