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Exeter Advocate, 1909-06-10, Page 6THE 1rlYSTE9I0US KEY OR, PLANNING FOR TIIE FU PURE. CHAPTER V 1. "Ellen!" exclaimed Lady Brom- ley, somewhat sternly, although she was herself not a little startled by the girls wild manner, her strange and incoherent language, "get up from the floor at once, and sit upon this chair. There!" an her young servant obeyed her; shocked into a semblance of compo- sure by her mistress' unusual tune, "now collect your thoughts and tell me what all this excited mumb- ling means. 1Vhat ►s that you know 1 Why were you so startled when 1 spoke of Mr. Hubba:al W fiat is it that you aro going to tell, even at the supposed risk of your life 1" "Oh, it is a queer story, warm, and 1 didn't understand what it a!! meant at the time; but now I see! now 1 see!" "Hush: be quiet! don't excite yourself again !" interposed Laey Bromley. "Do you know Mr. Jo':n Hubbard 1" "Don't 1 know him! I should think so; ho kicked me once," said the girl vindictively. "Ricked you'!" "Yes; 1 was letting him in one day, and not meaning to, I knocked his hat, and it got jammed. Then he sworn, and gave me a kick." "You were letting him in— .whero T" "Into our house." "What was ho doing at your house 1 Was ho in the habit, of cat ling thero'1 1 thought your aunt was very poor." `Yes, so she was; but we lived in a tenement that belonged to Me Hubbard, and ho used to come every month for his rent. After a while he and aunt Lu got very thick over something they were planning between them. I couldn't. make head nor tail out of it, though 1 used to listen when I could, said halen, as innocently as if lists - ening were the most proper thing in the world to do. "But one day 1 heard hum tell her that if she'd help hint out, he'd stake her a rich woman, and she'd never have to sew another stitch for her living; he said he'd come the next night and explain the whole thing to her. The thought of being rich almost took my breath away. I got alt stirred up over it. 1 thought of no- thing else all that day and next, and finally made up my mind that 1 would know shat was going on If 1 could manage it. There was an cld-fashioned sofa in our sitting - room ; it had a valance around it, to hide the legs, and it popped into any head that if 1 could slip ui.der- tmicath it, 1 count easily hear all that was said. So 1 pretended to hale a toothache, so I could make an excuse to go to bed right after supper---'' •'Oh, Ellen:" said Lady Brom- ley regretfully, at this point. "Oh, of course, I know that a lady like you, or—her," glancing at .\Ilison'e picture, "wouldn't do anything like that; but you just try being as poor and abused as Ise been, and sot if you wouldn't get to lying after a while; it's a good school for lists. ' said the girl half -defiantly. "Well." she re- sumed, "l just watched my chance, chile Aunt Lu was in the bedroom changing her dress. Anna had gone out—': 'Stop a moment, Ellen.' her ladyship here interrupted ; "who is Anna "She's my C 'URin ; aunt 1.U'9 daughter." "Yes, yes, 1 see ; now go on, said her mistress eagerly, and ting- ling in every nerve as she began to grasp certain anportant points iI. this remarkable story. ".\r 1 was saying.' Ellen resum- ed, "1 watched my chance, crawled under the sofa, and lay Hat on the "tloor It wasn't very eumfortahle, especially after that man came and plumped himself down right over me. ter 1 didn't stare to move ,o much as a linger --hardly to breathe full and strong. - "Now, watt just a minute, L•1 - len, Lady Bromley here interpos- time, and shut my teeth togctncr ed. "W hon was this—how long hard. ago was it when Mr. Hubbard pa:d "'bei.' that man paid, as if he thio visit to your aunt 1" thought he was the Great Mogul, "Oh --let me see. said the girl 'don't you think it would he a rare haveb h for her?' "Brown!"' ley. "Yes, that was Aunt Lu's name —she' married my uncle, Alaa Brown." •':1tt :,, "'Well,' he said, '1 guess I've got everything fixed just as I want it at last, and you can chauge your mune and position just as soon as you choose—fiat is, if you think you've got grit enough to carry out this plan of mine.' " 'I've got grit enough for any- thing on earth that will get me covet of this terrible grind,' said Aunt 1.u. 'Have you been to New H+r- ven yet, to look at those records'!' " " 'Yes,' he said, 'and, as luck would have it, 1 found thein exactly as you said. Brewster was mar- ried on the same day you were ; how did you happen to know about it'h ' 'Thy, Alan was one of tho jani- tors at the college, and knew young Brewster well; and when he went for our license, he met ti►o swell just coming out of the city clerk's ca- lico. He thought 'twas queer, but the book was lying raper on the desk, and he saw uis name and his "Yes, and he answered, sharp girl's—Miriam Harris—and under- and quick, ' We must get rid of her up to. At any rate, it was plain stood what was up,' Aunt. Lu ex- now ; she'd make it very hot tor enough that they meant to get rid planned. 'But as he was a rich chap us if we kept her on the string; see of me by sending me off to some and not through college, Alan knew would bo sure to blurt out, some horrid place, so when f fainted that he had done it on the sly, and that day, that your name was once Mrs. next day in Doctor Ash►pore's of- t• would bo for his int:rest to keep Brown, and then our fat would alt Lice, and he said 1 might go to live mum; he never said a word about ;he in the fire.' with hien, I made up my mind right it; he didn't tell even me until •• 'Blit what can 1 do with her l' ott what 1 would do. 1 made up my years afterward. How queer things Aunt Lu asked. do Dome about,' she said; `I knew " '1 think t know of a—a school, Miriam Harris, and she wasn't any in a certain town out West, where better off than 1, even if her father was a musician, and mine a journey- man tailor; they were as prou as Lucifer, and as poor as church mice, and now here you propose that 1 step right into the shoes that were intended for her I' " 'You think you can keep a stiff upper hp' 1' stud Mr. Hubbard. " 'You bet,' said Aunt Lu. repeated Lady !her to ; she's dead discouraged with! " 'Oh, yes, 1'1t marry him,' she t Tho men who are counting the4ed attempts were made 1.y tit a Span- tho grind she's had ever since her said sharply. '1'd marry almost any costs are endeavoring to increase ish Government to teco>re1 the the profits as well as to cut out the treasure. They were unsuccessful, losses. There is no iuceutivo to and later the Government began increased activity all along the to grant special charters to private line equal to an array of figures companies. A succession of at - shoving the cost of farm opera- tempts was made, the Government tions. at first demanding as much as 93 1 au► aware that the argument per cent, of all treasure that might will bo brought up by utauy that be raised from the bay. In 1722 all this keeping of acro nits and a wealthy Frenchman, Alexandre Goubert, almost succeeded in bring ing one of the sunken vessels on shore, but it proved to be a French warship that had been sunk dur- ing the battle a Vigo. An English expedition, under William Evans, worked for a year from the enc! of 1525, and succeeded with a primitive diving bell in rescuing sinal! amounts of silver, cannons, balls and other objects. The American Vigo Company followed, after an Brum• father died. 1'11 do my beet to per- I other dried-up, old bachelor for the suede her. Oh, 1'd almost give my 1 sake of getting out of such a hole eyes to see her wearing velvets and as this, and having all the money diamonds,' Aunt l,u said, almost l want to spend. Good gracious! ready to cry again. tf seems almost too good to be true, l ' 'It would be the most confer- though :' ' table way to settle matters, for all "they went to bed soon after parties,' he rod; 'but what will that," Ellen resumer!, "and 1 was you do with that little fool of a nighty glad of it, for 1 ached in niece of yours t' every bone from lying still so lung f goring, iiwaus a kit of labor and not "1 tell you, warm, I was nearly fheyn selttled themselves to sleep, e floor. Then, as soon a1 afford rd it.at e Nowthefacials that the choked again with the jump my crept out front under the sofa and: man who does not know where he heart gave at this," Ellen here ear - "But away to my room. is, is not practical at all.. He can served, her face growing very pale "But 1 didn't get touch sleep that better afford to do this than any - with the remembrance of the ex- night -1 kelt thinking over and i thing else he does. Many men un- perience; "it told me right off tnat over of what 1 had '!card, and, be -1 wittingly lose enough each year to 1 wasn't expected to have any share sides, 1 was mad through and, gc a long way toward paying a in the good time that was coming. through, to Know that when 1 u' bookkeeper. But a bookkeeper is " 'She isn't any niece of mine, been doing all the drudgery in coo! not needed. A little careful tigur- and I'd hav' been mighty glad to house for years, Aunt Lu had no ing will demonstrate the facts of get rid of her long ago, if I hadn't notion of letting me share the easy' farm operations in such a way as j interval of years, and succeeded in needed her in the kitchen,' she told tune and good things that were, to be a revelation to the ordinary•lifting one of the ships, which, how - him, in a sliteful way that made me coming to her. 1'd have been glad( farmer. To fail to figure on these' ever, went to pieces before it reach - just ache to strangle her." rt 1 could have stopped their game operations is penny else an "Oh, hush! Ellen," reprovingly then and there, just out of sp►te,1 pound foolish." Take tirue enough breathed her companion. but 1 didn't, understand it very to count the cost. "1 know it's wicked," said the well, so didn't know just how to go girl stoically, "but poverty is the to work. devil's training -school, and it fun- "The most 1 could get th-ci•gh ishes off more devils than anything my brain was that by some kthd of else," - trick they were going to get a lot "My child you must not talk soa ' - money, but Mr. ,,_.,_,..._", .....-.., darn at foaling tune, the youngster may, by judicious management, bo successfully raised by hand. The best substitute for mare's milk is cow's milk, but it must be remem- bered that the milk of the average cow is much richer in fat than that. •of the mare, and is deficient in sugar. To correct these conditions, the milk of a freshly -calved cow should be used; always the milk of the seine cow, and, if practicable, of a cow whose milk is not rich in ,fat, and to this add one-fifth of warm water, adding to each pint of that a heaping tablespoon of white granulated sugar, and be al- ways sure to feed it at blood heat. Tho colt should be fed little and often. If we study the colt when with its mother, we will find that it sucks from ten to a dozen times a day. Therefore, give him half a FEEDING THE ORPHAN FOAL. In the event of the death of the said her mistress authoritatively. great lawyer, and 1 thought nobody "But it stirs up alt the bad there would believe me if 1 tried to give is in me, whenever 1 look back and them away, and 1 might only get think of how that woman treated myself put in jail for tneddling. 1 ire," was the sullen reply. h elf, go on and get through with your story as soon as you can, then wo will try to find something better to think about," responded Lady Bromley, in a gentle tone. "You were saying that Mrs. Brown wanted to get rid of you.'' suppose 1 could have told that Aunt Lu's name had always been Brown, and she was only playing at being Mrs. Brewster, if 1 had wait- ed until they sprang their trap ; but I was afraid of them all, and t knew they'd he just about ready to kill toe if they should find out all that 1 had learned of what they were she could be sent, and would never be likely to trouble us again,' Mr. Hubbard told her, in a voice that made inc creep all over. But 1 said to myself that neither of thein would have a chance to work me on in that way—that 1 should light out all of a sudden, and then, if 1 ever saw my way clear to give thein the grand bounce for their golden slats, " 'Well, get me your certificate,' I'd do it. At first 1 thought 1'd go he told her, 'and I'll fix it up for that very night, after the house got you.' quiet ; but a few minutes afterward "Aunt Lu took a paper from her 'he told her that it might take a pocket, and handed it to him. 1 few days to fix things up before he couldn't see what it was, but it rat- could bring them to a—a-- " tied like letter -paper. "t;risisl" suggested her ladyship, 'Iia ! 1 heard him laugh, 'it's as Ellen appeared unable to think a piece of real luck to have every- of the word she wanted. thing turn out so cleverly; ..les, that was it. So I told my - 1 found out .that your husband's eel( that 1 needn't be in any great name was Alan .,rows, it struck hurry. l could look about a bit .or the that it might very easily be made a place. 1 had that ten dollars that over into Adam Brewster.' she," with another fond look at the " '1 don't see how you are going photograph across the room, "gave to do it,' said Aunt Lu nervously. rite, and 1 knew 1 needn't suffer; '1 don't want to get caught in any 1 could take care of myself for a law scrape.' while, even if 1 ran away before 1 'Sec hero,' he said, and then found anything to do. Before Mr. he showed her how he Could make Hubbard left ho told :tont Le that an `1' into a 'd,' and --oh, t can't in a week or so, he should want remember all the rest; but when her and Anna to move into a bet - he got through explaining, she for place, and they must have some seemed satisfied and well pleased. ' 'Yes, yes,' she said, '1 believe you can du it ; and if I do my part, you swear that you will hand over a lot of money to me 1' " 'Mrs. Brown,' he said, speak- ing very slow and positive, "y•,u tl Bever need to do another day's work as lung as you live.' " •Ole : what a blessed relieF that bundle that night and skipped out teacupful every hour at first, and the next morning, as I've told yore' gradually increase the quantity, "And you have never seen either while feeding less frequently, until your aunt or cousin since 7 'n' he is fed six times a day, and then quired Lady Bromley. "No, and 1 don't want to," said four times. The best way to teach the foal to drink is by means of a rubber nipple on the spout of a teapot. If scours occur. a little lime -water, warmed, should be ad- ded to the milk. To prepare lime - water, slake a lump of line by pour- ing a little water on it; then add water and stir. Let this settle for • several hours. and the clear water • ca top is the link -water to be used. • The foal should be kept in a loose box, well bedded, and may be taught to drink from a pail when a month old, and to eat ground oats and bran.. When let out to pas- ture. it should be stabled at night, or protected from rains. Ellen sharply ; "1 want to give them a wide berth, and hope they'll do the same ay me." ('lo be continued.) N••••••••••••••••••••• • r • • • • • • Aout the Farm • • • • • 11♦•••••••••••..•••••••t COST OF KEEPING A COW. In Hoard's Dairyman, Burton W. , Potter gives his idea on the method GREAT TREASURE BUNT cf reckoning the cost of keeping a • cow per year. Mr. Potter produces some very good arguments in sup- port of his views, but I believe that his method of calculation is not the best one to follow. By his splan the profit or loss of the entire farm is carried down and placed to the account of the dairy herd. It is a fact that on no good clothes to wear—they mustn't farm ere profits the same on tho get anything swell or showy at first, various lines of work. Perhaps but a few nice things t� make them there aro not meat' farms so oper- Tales of hidden hoards of pir- look ladylike and respectable. He ated as not to have a loss on some aces aid et treasure cargoes stored was going to New Haven the next things. By the Dian outlined by far beneath the waves in sunken dap, 'to file the records,' and when Mr. !'otter, it is impossible to know g;iticons have in all ages had a pe - ho came back he'd be ready to push exactly which things are producing culiar fascination for Hien, and matters, and would give her some profit and which loss, many a life has been kat and many been located. By way of c,.peri- lessons on law points, and what A roan may bo a .-s._� c (•tti11 a dollar expended in the search trent several cannons were raised she'd have to say and stick to in grower of grain and forage crops for wealth that never existed. It to the surface, and a quantity of will be,' she told hint, and just court; ter lie expected there might and yet a poor dairyman. His farm has remained, however, fur then of wood was recovered, so well pre - ready to cry. 'I don't think I ceu'.d be some tough fighting, as thero operations as a whole may be the twentieth century to place tree- served as to resemble stone. The have stood it much longer without was somebody else who would try yielding a profit, bat the dairy herd sure -hunting on a sound business wood of which the sunken gelle- going mad. I've been nture'n half tc get the Brewster fortune." may not be contributing to that basis, and to equip it with the ma- one were built is alone a treasure tempted to jump off the }ironkly'n „Dal he say who—did he men- }�rofit, On the other hand, the chinery necessary to its success. that would repay years of work Bridge into the East River many a tion any tinniest" inquire° Lady herd nay he the source of profit. i \\'!thin a few weeks the greatest spent un its recovery. time—guess l should if it batt❑ Brumley. and the other operations of the , treasure hunt ever 4stgauiied will The general cargo brought home been for Anna ; 1 thought it would "No ; and he didn't talk as if he farm, of loss. Hence it is essential : l+egin in the Bay of Vigo, where it by the transports included pearls, be cruel to leave 'ler to struggle had any fear . f thein. Aunt Lu tc• know, at least approximately. t is estimated that within a compare- emeralds and amethysts, amber and on alone."' said she'd do whatever ho told her the cost of producing the various 1 tively small area. minted gold and precious wools from the South "Olt:" here breathed Lady Brom- —she was ready to swear to any- products that make up the output 1 silver to the value of between American forests. It is known that ley, with n shiver, "what misery tlutig, for the sake of having an of a dairy farm. No line of animal !twenty and thirty million pounds there were numerous works of art there is in the world! To what des- easy time for the rest of her late. husbandry that will not pay sterling lie. in .'ld, silver and bronze, to say perste deeds poverty drives roan He went away then, and a title market value for the food consum THE BATTLE OF VIGO. nothing of 1,541 cannon, and in kind :" while after Anna came in. Aunt ed should be followed. Essential as numerable articles of value belong. 'Yes' said ill r. Hubbard." Lu told her all about Mr. ii r- is manure to maintenance of soil In the golden age of Spain's his-ing to officers and seamen. len went on, without heeding the bard's call, and when she carie to fertility, we should nut be obliged tory she drew (rem her mines in When, n a few weeks' time, interruption of her mistress, "'An- a hat he had said about marrying tc take it into account in order to the \Vest ladies gold and silver work is bestirs in Vigo Bay, attempts na is ton tine a girl to he left to her—Anna--she laughed until I get market price for our grain and worth mote than £A,000,0a0 a year. will first be made on the Santa hoe her own row alone. \Vhat have thought she'd burst a blood-ves- Drage. Ira 1702 a fleet of galleon. brought Cruz, one of the largest of the gal - you to sac to that other plan which sol•" The suece: i2 i dairy farmer na at horse the accumulated treasure of leen`. which carried 31 guns. It is I hinted at a few clays ago 1' " 'Oh, he's a clever ono, mother,' be a broad guaged roan. He must three years. amounting to sorne • hoped that she a ill comp a{, whole, " •�\ teat f About your marrying she said, when the could got her be as skillful at maintaining the £28,0+0),000, together with piesious for, from appearances, she has been Anna 1 said Aunt Lu, when mY breath. fertility of his soil and producing merchandise almost equally vatu-1 wonderfully preset ved. heart gave such a jump that 1 came " ' \I hat do you mean l' Aunt Lu bounteous craps of feed •~tuffs as able. Arrived safely at Vigo. the - — _ 4.— near crying out. I was so stirred asked. ht; is at breeding, feeding or caring seventeenth Spanish wakens were up. But 1 caught myself just in He means to nail everything, for tho dairy herd. This makes attacked by the combined British THE OPTIMIST. s„ there will he no fear of ever los- .t ne: essary fir him to be a student and Dutch fleets, under Admiral ' When in the dentist's chair, ing his grip on that money, said et all the various branches of Sir George Rooke. The galleons. i cd,, not raise a fuss; Anna. farming ; and the hest incentive to l which overt men-of-war, carrying ' 1 thank my lucky stars I'm not "'t don't understand you,' her study is a calculation of profit and from twenty to forty guns apieee,1 A hippopotamus. mother told tier. loss. hence the best method is .to were assit. d in the engagement by! reflectively ; "it must been chance o 'tt hy, l should think you'd have charge the cow for what she' 21 French ships of the line. The' when baggagemen destroy my souiewhere about the last of July. "'1 know it would, of course,seen through his game from the consumes at market price. This others were much stronger. and trunk, It was on 'Tuesday night - the next she answered, 'hut I can't tell how brat,' :►nn snapped. '01 course, is easy enough on hay and grain gained an overwhelming victory. It 1 do not rave and rant ; day 1 went to Doctor Ashmore to she may feel about it. I haven't John Hubbard sd meant to have the but • more difficult with ensilage, way t.• sasc the treasure falling in But mentally say I'm glad have the splints taken otT my arm. said anything to her yet; but I'm lion's share of this feast, under any however, by making an estimate 4.. their hands that the galleons d'm not an elephant. '1 hat wa= the time t f(sinted, aril of the opinion 'hat she 11 be ready circumstances; but he was keen of the yield of corn per acre. one , acre sunk. It is preyed beyond he told me t might go t olive with for almost anything that will nn- enough to see that it wouldn't do can come reasonably close to the doubt that only a sere serail part: When my shoes are hard and tight. bin. It was the second this after, prove her coalition.' to leave any loophole for us to go value of the crop. ! of the treasure belonging to then And pain ii i+npede that 1 went. and 1 have never -ecu "'!\ell, it strikes me that wo back nn him; so if he married me, ('est of production should be.King was landed before the battle, My walk. 1 smile and think 'til either Aunt t.0 or Anna since. i had better alt cast our lots into our interests would be so mixed up determined for all farm products. contemporary official documents w.r 11 'But if there was a prospect of one box together. and have a Rood 1 with his that we couldn't blow on ft is not enough to know that we 'hew it to have bsen L2,071.461. and Cm not a centipede. your aunt becoming rich. why did time for the rest .,f our lives.' he him or be grinding more money out hate a margin of profit on our tl, allies •tcut- d as boot} no more _ —^ you wish to run away? Von might went on. '1 will settle a hards.•me o! bile allit he time. farm work a• a whole. To he most than £ta4,7S.. Acme of this gold . Most music fans dispense music by have fared better if you had re ♦income on you the day she marries •' vies, see,' said her mother: aucecssful we should know what is and alter was dopa ted to the na- marred with her. her ladyship oto me, then l will take her all over then she went on anxiously, 'Tial 1 i paring and what is not Jt is toe tionsl currency in '.ngland. a±.d a the measure. but the bass drummer served. the world, and she shall hate ec- hope yen will marryhim, Anna—Ionly ground upon which we can number of ee.'nmemurable n.ecfa's Q,1s rid r•f his by the pound. "You'll see why. when I've told crythung she wants. She'll make he cant be such a great deal order:blase calculations. A knowledge also were streck from the captured0,1in e great while we meet a you hat l hear.! that nista.' 1:1- a handsome woman dressed in her than you; girls often marry men that we are )(gang on a Pertain gold by order of Quern :\n.:Fe nen who is alae enough t', know ten r+pf:ect, with a sheer. t1s!;, ashes and diam. mels.' alder than he. then j: �' think nt�nperatinn will lead to bettering the Ft)BMFat Ilia-.1SF )IE 111 '%1'� „'fie;.',r' has enough before he got/ ! I don't believe then:'' a bit cf ',good times you'll ►t • -- the , methods employed or dropping Mrs Itr,.a n, \I r. Hubbard said, Si the Le sat dvwn—" doubt about her demi as you want travel, nice clothes, and jewels-- that particular breach out entirely. Almost as soon as the battle end -+t SYNDICATE EXPECTS TO GET OVER £20,000.000 Galleons Lost in Bay of 1 igo In lath Have Been Located by the Ilydroscope. ed the surface, as it bad not been properly strengthened. THI: HY1)HSCO' No other coneessOion wIerLe. grant- ed until the present concessionaires appeared on the scene, and secured from the Spanish Government the sole right of working in Vigo Bay until 1915. The Spanish Govern- ment is to receive 20 per cent. of the value of the objects recovered. Dr. C. L. lberti is at the head of the enterprise, while the engineer is Guiseppe Pino, an Italian. Pino has invented and patented a num- ber of ship -salving instruments, specially adapted for finding and lifting the lost galleons. Chief of his inventions is the hydroscopo, which may be described as a tele- scope for use under water. Through the hydroscopc objects can be seen under water almost as clearly as objects in the air can be seen through field glasses. The top of the apparatus is a floating platform, on which twenty men can stand. Front its centre descends a powerful tele- scopic steel tube, at the end of which is an optical chamber, a kind of camera, provided with mechani- cal arms, and containing powerful lenses. The system of lenses and reflectors is so arranged that ob- jects surrounding the baso may be seen from above to a distance of about 2,000 square -yards. The hydroscope is provided also witb electric lamps of great. power. PNEUMATIC ELEVATORS. Another of the clever Italian's in- ventions is a submarine boat, which was used by the Japanese to raise the sunken Russian warships at 1'urt Arth:u•. It is shaped like a torpedo, and is screw -driven; it is also fitted with wheels, and can move along the sea-bed ; it can rest immovable in the water at any depth, and has mechanical arms which may be worked with a precis- ion almost equal to that of human hands. Among the other inventions are the elevators, consisting of cy- linders made of rubbered canvas, into which compressed air is pump- ed. Each cylinder is capable of raising 40 tons out of the water, ea that it is only a question of mul- tiplying the number of cylinders, whatever the weight inay be. The elevator has mechanical arms to embrace the holt which is to be salved, or cables may he passed be- neath a keel when the wreck is weak. THE G:\LLLONS LOCATED. The hcd of Vigo Bay has already been examined with the hydruscopo and the ships. which for more than two centuries had rested peaceful- ly in the depth of the ocean, have