A Singular River | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1875

A Singular River.

A New York Herald correspondent, writing from the Black Hills, says: "A most remarkable stream was discovered and appropriately named Amphibious Creek. Its waters sink into and rise from the earth many times in their journey from their original spring to the south fork of the Cheyenne. A well-worn bed extends all the way, showing that in the wet season a torrent flows on the surface. But at the present time not a vestige of the current may be seen for miles after it disappears, until it suddenly bubbles up again from the rocks and rolls onward to the next point of descent into its subterranean channel. Streams of this character are so common on the great plains that they are not thought remarkable, but they are rarely found among mountains, for the reason that the substrata is usually composed of solid rock lying not far below the surface, and affording no room for a sub-passage through the sand, if that should happen to compose the soil."