Bed of Atlantic Raised by Two Miles A noteworthy discovery has been made by an Eastern Telegraph Company's cable repairing ship in the Atlantic, on the St. Helena-Capetown route.
The cable in question was laid in 1899, and had been in constant use until the 4th of the present month. On that day a break was reported at a spot scme 800 miles north of the Cape, and on its arrival there the repairing ship reported to London that. instead of the depth of water being 2,700 fathoms (1 fathom=6 feet), or just over three statute miles, as stated im the chart, it was only a little under three quarters of a mile below surface Apparently, by a vast submarine convulsion, hitherto unnoticed, the ocean-bed has been lifted by as much as two miles and a quarter. It should be said that the original depths, as_ recorded in the chart, were from 2,300 to 2,700 fathoms, except in one patch some considerable distance from north of the place where repairs are now being effected, and where only 700 fathoms were reached.
The theory is held by the authorities that there now exists an almost continuous range of submarine mountains, stretching from the Cape Verde islands, with the small islands of Ascension and St. Helena still appearing as the highest peaks in the chain.
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