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MINLIGUA• LEIVIM DROS,, T.IhIITE] i,'EAn nnicHNr.EAI, TORONTO INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY OF CANADA Tbcdlreetroute between the West and all points on the Lower St, Gawrenoe and Bele des Chaleur,Province of Quebec; also for New Brunswick ,Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Oapeleretonteleuds,nudNewfoundlandand St. Pierre, Express trains leave Montreal and Halifax daily (Sundays excepted) and run through wiithoutchange between these pointsiu ei home and 55 minutes. Tbe through express train cars of 11ieIn- teroolonial Railway are brilliantlyi.ghted by electricity andlieated by steam, treat ohs locomotive. thus greatly increasing the ooh fortand safety at travellers. carq&rerunouDI ouehhiexpro strgainadd><y Canadian -European Mail and Passenger Route, PessongeratorGroat aritaiun-r the contl- ntint byleavingMonti oat on l'ridaymorniug will join outward p ailsteamer at Halifax nsatnrday. The attention ofseb lepers is direotea toric auperiorfaeilitice chorea by title routefor be transport emu r and ggeneroi merohan- liso intended fortlteleesteirn Provinces And Kewfoundlaud; also torelipmente of grain dprodnecintoudedfor t n o European mer Tioketeme.ybe obtainedand nformation bout the route; also freight and passenger ares on application to jl • WDATHERST:IN, WestetnPxeight ,tlassonge Agent e8RoesiallonseHi ek eterk dt .. oront D FOTTINGIi1Ii Chief eu perintondent. Railway Offioeaeonoton, N,B. Jan este) EKE KEY TO &AA. Unlocks all the gio,d avenues of the owels, Kidneys and Liver, carrying gradually without weal. ming the sys m, all the impurities a: 1 foul humors the secretions; at the same time Cor- eeting Acidity of the Stomach, uring Biliousness, Dyspepsia, eadaehes, Dizziness,,. Heartburn, onstipation, Dryness of the Skin, ropsy, Dimness of Vision, Jaun- ce, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Sero- tela, Fluttering of the Heart, Ner- ousness, and General Debility ;all eso and many other similar Complaints .d to the happy influence of BURDOCE —00D BITTERS. For Said by aIZ Dealers. TVIRN & CO., Proxictors. Tonto. RANCHING IN ALBERTA. A Lucrative Rush ess—lierses and Cattle Watch .Surprised Eastern Visitors, The magnificent appearance of the range cattle is a continual source of wonderer to visitors from the east accustomed only to. domestic, stall -fed animals, but it is owing to the fact that they are rauge cattle and not confined by arbitrary fences that they obtain such excellence. Were every rancher compelled to graze his herds within the that limitsnobprobable tit of his lease it is there would be anything like such numbers of splendid stock raised. Lying at the base of the foothills of the Rockies, the cattle have both hill and plain to graze over. In summer they feed across the prairie and in winter are brought back among the hills,where they have ample feed and shelter. A prevaleut idea in the east is that the cowboys are continually with the cattle. This is, however, not the case ; the rancher seldom sees his cattle ex- cepting at the several round -ups. There are, however, "time -riders," whose duty it is to ride down astretch of country within which the cattle are grazing, and any that may have drifted beyond that line are brought back. Were this not done the cat- tle and horses might stray loug distances, f entailing long journeys to gather them in. In the High River country sv.)hieh I eisited the ranchers have formed an association, all the members working together in the common interest. When the season arrives to round up, each member sends his quota to cow- oys, who join with the others in "cutting out" the cattle. The cattle of the different ranches are distinguished by their owner's brand, which is placed on the shoulders, flanks or ribs, as it may be. In this way all the cattle on the range may become mixed up without danger. ARTEKS ITTL�. IVER PILLS. CU -E lek Headache and rel eve ail the troubles inf- ant to a bilious state of the system. sa,ch as zziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after -ding, Pain in the Side, ere. while their most marable success has been shown in curing S I C ledaehe yet CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS e equally variable in Constipation, caring. id preventing this annoying complaint, while ey also correct all disorders of the stomach, mutate the liver and regulate the bowels, en, if they only cured • HEA e they would be almost priceless to these starer from this distressing complaint: fort.taately:their goodness does not end and those who once try. them will Iind little pills valuable in so many ways that, will not be willing to do without them. $Ilfter all sick head ACH th9 bane of so many lives that here is where t- aka our' great boast, Our pills cure it e others do not. arse's LITTLE LIVER PILLS are very small `hely easy to take One or two ills make 'Se, They are strictly vegetable and do sips or purge, but by their gentle action 61 all who' use them. in vials at 2t, cents - $t, -: Sold everywhere, or sent by mac AASTEB IaDIOINE 00„ New Tori. Ailsa Small Pale leases was of little concern to the ranchers, A'WONDERFUL VARIETY. as the country was big enough for all, but • the difficulty lay in the presence of the Something About Different Hinds of Feuer squatters themselves, as they invariably Leat cls. settled on those places along the rivers and Very, fewpeople have any idea of the RANCH BUILDINGS It is a matter of surprise to many, not- withstanding the importance of some of the compauies, to find how modest the ranch buildings are. By far the greater number of them are one -storied log shanties, furnish- ed in the plauiest manner to accommodate fifteen or twenty men, and as far as actual value goes are not to be compared with the fine farm houses to be seen in the principal grain districts in Manitoba. The out- buildings, however, are far more expensive than those of ordinary farmers, for although they ere built of logs also, so much accom. modation is required in the way of sheds, etc., that the buildings on many of the ranches often represent large sums of money. Adjoining the stables and sheds are a number of heavily -fenced enclosures, called "corrals," in which the branding and break- ing is done. When a colt which has never seen a stable or corral before is to be "brok- en" he is "out out" from the beech by the cowboys and driven into a corral probably about40 feet feet square. From this the is driven intotho "squeezer," an ingeniouseon- trivance, in which he is completely hemmed in, unable to move either way, and whore he is completely at the mercy of the cow- boys. Different devices are in use for this purpose. Those I saw were gates which are swung back on the colt from the fence. on which they aro hung, and securely fastened back, thus enclosing him between the high, powerfully -built fence and the gate. Tho most important time in the Iife of a colt is when he is being broken 10, as he is then made or marred. The wild,vicious, buck- ing bronco may be excellenfor Wild West shows or /halide Bill's exhibition, but to the rancher he is an unmixed curse, and for practical purposes is useless. Tho original stook on the horse ranches were brought m chiefly from Oregon and Montana, but their progeny now show little resemblance to them, having been crossed on many ranch. es with thoroughbred stallions imported from England, Eastern Canada and Ken- tucky. The ranches breading horses ex- clusively are comparativelyfew, the market being more uncertain than that for cattle, which of late has been fairly remunerative. creeks where the cattle were accustomed te. drink, As I mentioned above, the banks of thesemountain streams are precipitious ; indeed, the action of the water has, under- mined them in places for miles, making it impossible for the cattle to get down to water except at long intervals where there are fords or crossings or sloping banks. At these places many of the squatters have settled, and in some cases fenced in the approach to the water, thus cutting it off from the lenge country and rendering the country surrounding useless. The result was 80 serious that the Government were compelled to forbid the enclosure of certain sprigs throughout the country, which are thus secured to the ranehmen. But, al- though that was a great boon, the ranchers contend that it did not meet the- dif- ficulty, as even if the water were not fenced in, the very presence of farm build- ings and domestic animals kept the wild range animals from approaohing, and they would drift away for utiles until they came to other springs undisturbed by man. The loss and annoyance caused by the squatters have been a sourced continual irritation to the ranchers, and they declare that every year the nuisance is increasing and the area of the grazing lands becoming more limited. The squatters contribute nothing towards the rent of the land which their cattle use in common with the ranchers, while the latter have to suffer heavily by their presence. Several of the ranchers tried to ojeet the in- truders, but in this they received neither help nor sympathy from the Government who told them that according to the terms upon which they obtained their leases they were liable to have thein cancelled if the land was required for settlement or any other pnrpose, first receiving two years' notice. This the ranchers admit, but submit that, considering the immense extent of territory to the north and the hundreds of thousands of acres in other portions of the Northwest which is adapted by nature for mixed farm- ing it is unfair to allow the email portions suitable for cultivation in their Territory to be encroached upon. The Government reply that they are at liberty to purchase the land at $2 per acre if they please. This, the rauclhmon say, they cannot afford. to do, as they would have to buy the -sands of acres of worthless laud, but numbers of them say they would buy it at $1, or even $1 25, if they were permitted. This is not the root of the question. Against the ranchmen is the fact that as a whole they have not paid their rents ; some have done so of course, but many of them are in arrears, and are being surd by the Government ; but, paid or unpaid, all are more or less subject to the losses occasioned by the squatters. That the tauchmen feel deeply on the subject is evident by. the threatened abandonment of many of the leases. They point out that many thousand acres have been sold to col- onization and other companies, who have not expended anythinj like the money they have done in the country, for the same price they are prepared to pay. The bulk of the capital invested in the ranching industry is English, and much of the stock in the Cana- dian company is held in London also, Some of the ranchers speak of publialhing their grievance in the London financial and stock papers, in which they will point out that the stockholders of their several companies are threatened with heavy loss in the Cana- dian ranching industry by reason' •of the Government refusing to protect them from indiscriminate squatters, and that they have no recourse but to purchase their land, which is largely worthless for any other purpose, at 1 reprices which millions of acres of far bettor land have been sold for. The q estion is one that demands the instant and generous consideration of the Govern- ment, who at least should secure themselves from antagonising the investment of British or any other capital in a part of the country that cannot without the expeuditure of large sums be as successfully developed by any class of settlers as it eau, and has been done by the ranchmen and their gold. BOW RIVER HORSE RANCH. DIFFICULTIES TO CONTEND 'WITH. As in every other business, the success of ranching depends very largely on the management. Even with high prices and good seasons it is impossible to expectranah- ing to pay unless they are under the direc- tion of careful, experienced men, and al- though much of the loss sustained in the early years is ascribable to heavy storms, in which many of the cattle newly brought in nwas ' e fished more of it directly rr due to the ignorance and incompetence of the men in charge. The supervision of an y thousand headof cattle and horses demands constant care and watchfulness, and is no small undertaking for oven those long accustomed to the business. Even on ranches such as the Northwest Catn.'e Company's, in which Mr. Frederick Stimpson has one of the most highly -qualified managers in the whole country, there are losses sustained which are impossible to avoid. Principal among these are heavy storms in winter, which, although fortunately a rare occurrence, have caused serious loss in many instances. Another source of anxiety to the ranchers are the wolves, which in the High River district alone are estimated to destroy young colts and calves of the value of 620,- OCO per annum. Great numbers have been shot and poisoned by the ranchers them- selves, but they declare that there is no appreciable diminution in their numbers and contend that the only feasible way of exterminating the scourage is for the Government to offer a bounty for every headtaken, as is done across the line. These, however, are but trivial difficultiescompared to the one great danger that threatens the whole ranching industry of Southern Alber- ta, and one that is already pfessing so hard on some of them that they declare that un- less is found in ) ss some redressthe immediate will bo compelled future they p d t o abandon the business and withdraw their capital, which cannot but: have a most serious and disastrous effect on the country. The griev- ance they so bitterly complain of is the grad- ual encroachment of settlers on their leas- es. ' is the greatproblemin This Southern rn Alberta to -day, and one which must be set- tled at once one way or the other if serious difficulty and loss are to be avoided. The facts I have, obtained on the subject are not supplied by any one man in particular, but: are the unanimous testimony of every ranch- er I met and interviewed on the subject. Briefly, this is the situation throughoutthe ranching country, which roughly extends from Calgary to the international boundary, and which I have referred to as being unde- sirable for grain growing until irrigation is commenced. There are patches of good Land, that is, land sufficiently Well watered for grain growing, where good crops can and have been raised. On many of these strips patches settlers have come and . 1 v in and squatted, brokerf small portions of Iand and • commenced farming on a . small scale. They were not able ; to mase entry for the lands as homesteads when mjust they first came in,but put upTheirbuildings promiscuously over the leases. wherever they found suitable locations. None of the squatters attempted graingroiv- ing exclusively, but went in for stock as well. ' These they turned out to graze, on the leases; only fencing their small crops. The presence of the squatter's, cattle on their Jersey. City. number of different animals who contribute their skins for the adornment of pocket- books, purses, etc., and make up the large number of odds and ends which people find so useful. Monkeys, pigs, goats, snakes, lizards, alligators, sheep, calves, fish, seals end even birds, all contribute. The great mejority of these skins are im- ported, as labor is so cheep abroad that the manufacturers here find that even the duty of 20 per out. on the finished leather, that it is cheaper than importing the hides with- out duty, and having them tanned here. The one thing of importance in leather for fancy leather goods is the grain, which influences the price to a very great extent. The number and variety of grams is large, and the different leathers are classified when received according to the size of the grain under these several headings : Fish, morocco, gros grain, levant, turkeyq,monkey, pig and seal. These grains are all different s.zes, the monkey being the largest,although the pig and the seal are very pronounced. The fish grain is the smallest of all. Be- sides these leathers there are a great many would-be victim . imitations -made, butting, whichis a split Our dogs had preceded us on the trail, cowhide, and a skiver, which is spilt sheep. and ere we had penetrated many thickets akin. or fallen over many of Musiroka's rocks and But these can be easily told, as what is boulders we heard the barking of our hound le railed hand grain is the natural grain of victoryw© hastened if possible, distance. Nerved by ur steps, s the skin touched up by hand, whereas the and wre delighted to see shortly our faith - ordinary imitations are emhoased by ma• ful dogs at the bottom of a large tree bay - chine, ing furiously and with their hungry eyes Several other grains made by macainery directed to its branches. Up there among on skiver or buffing are called boarded, the snowy boughs eat bruin quite uncon- boiuKmade by a brass tool which gives lino corned and defiant. Without delay we dia. straight lines close together ; the others charged our guns, but without effect ; a showing wavy effects or water lines on the second and athird aime without result, skin and the dice grain. further thea the merest ruffle of bruin's The most expensive leather sells from shaggy hide. $100 to $110 per dozen skins. This is the genuine Russian leather, which has of late We were not surprised at this, however, temporarily lost popularity. It is in gros' h for in our hurry ce had brought partridge shot whicwas certainly too fine for the grain. Levant goatskin sells for$60 a dozen The skins. Seal sells for $30 to $50 a dozen. present for one of us to return to thea camp for and pigskins are sold by the skin at $6.50; heavier ammunition, while the other kept or $7 each. Monkey skins are oheaper, eel'.watch Jack, who was probably the more ing at $4 per akin, but these latter are very inervous of the two, agreed to get the allot hard to procure at any price. They are and at once aterted orf at his utmost speed. made up only by one or two manufacturers In that 45 minutes during Jack's absence that we know of in America, into the very many vague terror, crept over me, the finest grade of leather novelties of rho im- chiefest being the fear of Bruin coming down ported skins. With the exception of the this tree and demanding a hand•to•paw en - ,counter, in which I certainly would be the nearly all these skins are tanned in Ger- many, although sheepskins are tanned inivanquished and perhaps squeezed -to -death France. party. Thanks to Bruin, however, he sat A very ingenious imitation of Russian tient° and motionless, save for an occasional leather has been made of calfskin, perfumed, glance askance, probably looking for some with the oil of birch, safer avenue of escape than down the tree. Itis dangerous to counterfeit, for the res -Jack returned, bringing the rauche•desired that the color is exactly the same and shot and also an ax. Ina jiffy we had re - son t too •tat tnco and odor very much so, viten loaded and both fired almost simultaneously. puzzling the untutored buyer. Time, how -I T eeelour shots had evidently taken some over, destroys the false order and reveals effect, for Bruin begins to tremble and tip - the imitation. i pear very nervous. A repetition of the dose The moat important thing now, and the shortly afterwards proved more thanold latest, is to have the leather novelties which Shaggy could stand eons bang to to ire wor-'n carry to match their dress in color. overs same time. Consequently a d topples Former) the houses which import loath-lto the hisgLunt clutch is loosened Noto and he falls ers to this country used to send samples of to the ground with a thud. to lie geld, leathers to Germany and elsewhere to match however. IIs regain tit his feet, and with a so as to strike the exact color. Now, silk, rollicking movement attempts a retreat from cotton stuffs, plush, oto., are sent instead; his cruel assailants, who have reloaded in Lizard skins come largely from Borneo as the meantime and fire, bringing his mime. well . as German Trunk and Leather I at on a seidy.zed to tiaound for are last time, y'—� I at ince seized the ax and dealt hien some heavy bit) atm the head, though I confess Bruin's and sympathy -inviting oyes peering on me caused my )humanity to rise within me a little and 1 almost hesitated to I must not close this briet summary of the ranching industry and its difficulties in .Alberta withoue an appreciative reference to a visit I was enabled to make to the Bow through the courtes of leer orae Ranch R Hy the manager, Mr. Gilbert Goddard. Hav- ing seen something of the High River coun- try, 50 miles south of Calgary, I• was desir- ous of seeing something of the district west, so accepted Mr. Goddard's kind offer. The ranch lies some •eighteen miles west of Cal- gary, and comprises about 35,000 acres. A traveller will see many pretty spots in the Northwest, but he would travel many a long day before he would see anything to equal the view from the hill overlooking the home buildings of the Bow River Horse Reach. We drove up just as the sun was setting, and Paused to watch the effect of its last bright rays on the giant peaks of the grand sold, Rockies jhat stretch along to the east and west in full view of the ranch. On the north, and flowing close by the buildings, is the Bow River, flashing silver and clear as crystal, springing from the majestic range itself. Certainly nature could not have done more to beautify the situation, and as far as. possible Mr. Goddard has done what he could to preserve it. All the stables and sheds and outbuild- iugs are neatly arranged and painted, and a magnificent fence surrounds the whole place. The Bow River Company are breed- ing some of the best horses in the country, and have recently imported at great expense several magnificent thoroughbred horses, which are being crossed with fine American at -c mares. o es will always be " "I+" ass horses First-class y saleable, and the class of horse now being bred on the Bow River ranch should come mend the Highest prices in the market. In a country like the•Northwest, where there are so many evidences of neglect and care. lessness, it is a pleasure to see a place that edges of careful o. s such unmistakeable ah w g and intelligent management as the Bow River Horse Ranch. 11..0. M. • Another Wonderful Clock. Among other Anique and curious works of art in the French exhibit at Chicago is one which shows a novel application of the magnet. It is a clock shaped like a tam bourine, with a circle of flowers painted on its head. Around this circle of artifioal sweets two bees slowly crawl, the larger re-. Taring twelve hours in which to complete errenit, while the smaller one makes the t' p once. every hour. Different kinds of t the hours,and the bees ereeu tit o ers r e fl W r which are of polished steel, are moved by two magnets worked by hour and minute hands, which revolve behind the head of the tambourine. Mrs. Marahal BathR .Booth tonooth is said to receive but seven, dollars a week for her servioes to the Salvation Army. With all her public work she finds time to makeher little boy's garments, and to look after the housekeeping of her small pimple house in TRUE STORIES OF TER RUNT. A Thrilling hear Chase tit Ike Muskoka What's that 9 said Jack starting, as we were finishing our bite one snowy morn- ing uph sari giventhe week,and had n last ida of havinany thrilling experience to relate to our anxious friends in distant homes. The noise was that of crackling sticks, apparently being crushed beneath. the Leet of some wild habitant of the Mus- koka wilds. Jack sprang from his block of a chit theof a v which answered t duty, hood h and peeping front out our tet whispered that be sawa great big hear at a short dis- tance from us. I instantly seized my double barreled gun, took aim, discharged both barrels and struck old Bruin—not to kill, however, perhaps not to wound, though I was fully intent on both. Mr. Bear at once bounded into a thicket, not leaving even a little fur behind. We were not to be dis- couraged, however, in this our first bear.ex- perience, so seizing our shot and powder flasks and calling our dogs we took to the chase. Recent snow was valuable assistance for us, for the bear's track on his runaway was all that could be seen, hence it was not uneasy for us to follow the trail of our Review. The Porcelain Tower atNankin. China, the land of towers, pagodas and strike the last blow ; butbeing an English - gigantic images has nothing in the way of man who works for victory, with bull -dog artificial curiosities which excites the won- tenacity T struok rho delayed blow, this der and admiration of the traveler more time to beat time to Bruin's last kick. than does the ruins of the famous "Poroe• Jack and I treated ourselves to bear's lain Tower of Nankin." This oddest of meat for dinner, and we feel that thiswith architectural wonders was finished in the minor experiences, will repay us for our year 1430 after an expenditure of nineteen first hunter's experience in the wilds of years of labor and a sum of money equal to Muskoka. $4,000,000 in 'United States currency and stood for nearly four and a quarter oentur ies until 1856, the most marvelous building ever erected by human )hands. It was octagonal in form, 260 feet high, divided into nine stories, each of which was Reminiscence of the Charleston Earth- quake. Co. taro Leo Vogel, now in the service of provided witha cornice above and a gallery the Clyde Steamship Company, says of This below. The name "Porcelain Tower " was experience at sea during the Charleston applied to this nnique structure on account earthquake : "I was going southward in of the fact of the outside of the entire work °barge of a doable -screw steamer, 300 feet having been finished with procelain slabs of long, anal was twenty-two miles south and fifty east of Charleston. It was the ugli various sizes, shapes and color. At every est oneof the nine stories the projecting roof sky that, I think, I had ever seen, during of the galleries was covered with green tiles the afternoon, and I was really expecting a each of the eight projecting corners being cyclone. The sky was of a salmon color, provided with a large bell making a grand total of eighty-one corner bells. Other bells on top and inside the struc- ture ran the number up to 152 the smallest at which is said to have weighed 300 with clouds of sulpburous green. It was close and hot and there was a sense of some- thing being wrong. We were on the eight fathom line that niht, when suddenly the engines stopped. %Ve wero shaken from and the larger size about an even thousand' side to side, then the ship deemed to settle, pounds. Ranged in rows between the bells and it was as though the bottom were rub - were somothin Tile first officer were 128 bronze and silver lamas which bing g g were regularly lighted every night in the year. The apex of the tower was a gigan- tic pineapple whose base started at the 250 foot level and extended upward for ten feet this in tura being surmounted by a copper globe two feet in diameter. A spiral stairway of over 300 steps led from base to summit and was wholly con- structed of polished marble, brass and por- celain. The building was originally con- structed as a gift to au Empress and on that account was always kept in repair at government :expense. In 1801 lightning struck and tore off the piueapple and the three top stories, but this injury vas re- paired as soon as possible afterward and the building would doubtless have survived for centuries longer bad not the Taiping rebel.; destroyed it in the year mentioned in the opening. Some. High Prioed Relics• Zr. Guenther of Chicago, who owns Lin- coln's bootjack, hat, bedstead and other relics of fabulous value, could tell many in- teresting stories of the high prices relic- lovers have paid for famous souvenirs, bat it is extremely doubtful if he could call. from hie rich store of relic lore anything that wouldthe followingac. count of prices paid by European memento- hunters: ementohunters: The hat worn by Napoleon at Eylau was sold in Paris about 1835for a sum equal to $4000 in United States currency. The coat worn by Charles XII at the Battle. of Pultowa brought an even $100,000; a wig that once belonged to Sterne, the; great Irish writer. was sold at public auction in London in 1868 and was knocked down to a bidder who was willing to give $1050 for the false hirsute. In 1816 one of the teeth of Sir Isaac Newton was sold by a relic dealer doing business in Birmingham, the first: bid on the grinder being £500. After much bandying the tooth was finally sold to a • nobleman who thought it worth a suns equal to $3650. Before returning to his home this scion of nobility had a valuable dia- mond removed from his finger ring and the gre at philosopher's tooth set in its place. The term hand, used in measuring horses, means 4 inches. Cleverton—"Did you ever see a man who could stand as much liquor as . Tanker 'I" Jaggway (sadly)—"No. Some men are born real lucky." Children Cry for Pitcher's Castor rushed on deck, shouting. ' We're aground!' I ran for the chronometer to record, as nearly as possible, the time of the occur- rence, and from that Iestimato that it took only about five seconds for the shook to reach Charleston. My people were in Charleston then, and my first impulse was to go back, but I remembered that I was responsible for a ship's cargo and people. On arriving in port I found that the earth- quake had really occurred, and it lifted a great load from my mind on the return trip when I saw one of my children on the dock and heard him shout, ' We're all right' The shock enure distinctly from the south- east, and I believe when the ship seemed e to settle that either the sea was hollowed for a great area, allowing us to touch bot- tom, or else that the bottom was heaved up to within a couple of fathoms of the surface." Nei;ht of Land Above Sea Level. The mean bei ht of land above sea level acoording to JohngMcMurry, the great geog- rapher, is 2250 feet; the moan depth of all ooeans being 12,480 feet. Only 2 per cent, of all seas and oceans are included in the list of depths reaching to below 500 fathoms. 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